Foster Homes

These pictures show our foster homes and where the mini mutts dogs stay until they get adopted. As you can see, we treat each dog as if he/she were our own, including him/her in our daily activities such as walks, car rides, even swimming in the pool. This is how we get to know them and how they get to know us.

Fostering a dog or more is a very rewarding experience. Not only do you take care of the dog physically - food, water, treats, toys - but you heal the dog emotionally as well. So many of our dogs come to us with broken spirits, emotional problems, lack of trust, never knowing a kind hand, etc. By fostering a dog, you can watch a sad little one blossom into a happy little dog that has learned to trust and accept and show love. We fall in love with all our dogs and cry tears of happiness and sadness when one leaves to go to his/her forever home. But those tears are quickly replaced with smiles and "ooh's" and "ah's" and "oh, poor baby", when we rescue another broken soul and nurse him/her back to life!

When a person who has given tirelessly and made it their life's work to save and succor abandoned animals and find them happy homes comes to the bridge, first one animal will stop and look into the distance, then more and more will look up and watch. For this is a person all the animals know about. As they have waited for their loved one(s), they have told the story of their rescue from loneliness, neglect and impending death, and the wonderful people who helped them until a special loved one could be found. Oh special friend of animals, you have been spotted, and all the dogs and other animal friends will run over the fields to thank the person who has enabled so many to have had good lives and memories. Then, will they all walk to the gate of St. Peter and say, "This is a person whose name is surely entered on the roll once for each of us whose life was changed." Then those friends who will be forever together step forward and, to the sound of great rejoicing from all the animals, cross the bridge together.