Life with foster dogs

Tonight we had an adoption event that was a little different. A school was having a fun fair and invited us to bring adoptable dogs. I had done this event last year with my foster, Boomer. Boomer was a 90 pound blue tick coonhound. He was great. He loved people, but got over excited and would try to jump up (and being 90 pounds that was not good). Because of this a lot of the kids avoided him.  I will go into more about Boomer later, he was a fun dog. This year I took Rocky (who I may not have made clear is the same as Loki, same dog different name). Rocky did great. He really does love kids. His tail was going pretty much the whole time. Some of that had to do with the goodies the kids were carrying. He tended to be a favorite of the kids too. One little boy spent most of the event with him and was trying to talk his mom into adopting. His mom told him she would have to have a family discussion. They weren’t too keen on the fence jumping. They also have a cavalier King Charles s...

Life has been a little crazy lately. We went on vacation and are just getting back to a routine. I have not had much time for blogging. Today was another adoption event and I am feeling a little down. Most of the dogs at the event today were small dogs or puppies. Both of these tend to grab people’s attention. Poor Rocky did not get a lot of people coming up to say hi, and no one interested. Sometimes I feel defeated with him. I see all the other dogs getting adopted, and here he stays. I wonder if I should just adopt the poor guy so he can have a family.  You may ask why I don’t do that? This guy has been through a lot, he is comfortable at my house, doesn’t it make sense to let him stay? I have put serious thought into it. The thing holding me back is if I do adopt him there will be no more fostering, at least for the moment. We have 2 dogs of our own. 3 dogs is ok, but the couple times I have had 4 dogs here it gets crazy. Our house is too small. So Rocky is pretty much our ...