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My Foster Breakup
It was time for me to break up with Kali and let her move on. It’s not her, it’s me. Kali deserved this and I couldn’t be selfish any longer with her love.
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Going Rogue
Sometimes you have to make a decision. And I sure did. Our beautiful gal in this photo is 14-year-old Mia. She is primarily red with black accent Pomeranian/Dachshund mix missing quite a few teeth requiring a primarily soft food diet and heart murmur level 3 which will require some watching but not medication at this…
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When Passion Turns Inward: Confronting Toxicity Within the Animal Rescue World
This message is intended for the people inside rescue—the ones who live this work daily, who understand its weight, and who know how painful it is when harm comes not from the outside world, but from within our own community. It isn’t easy to talk about, but it’s necessary. Yes, Toxicity Exists Inside Rescue Not…
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When Fostering Meets Reality: Remembering Our Resident Pets Matter Too
Fostering animals is one of the most rewarding things many of us will ever do. It’s an act of love, of compassion, and of wanting to make the world a little better for the souls who’ve been dealt a difficult hand. Most fosters have big hearts—we say “yes” because we want to help. We say…
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Jada’s Journey
From Rescue to Renewal In August of 2022, my life unexpectedly shifted when a small beige Sphynx cat—then named Dana—appeared on a Sphynx Facebook page I followed. Her photo was hard to look at: painfully thin, crusted with debris, and clearly struggling. For a week I watched hundreds of people comment in heartbreak, begging for…
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Le Funk or Le Skunk?
Throughout fostering life it isn’t uncommon for one to experience a “funk” as I like to call it. We all have our highs, our lows, and those days where you aren’t ever really sure that you will get out of the hydroplaning experience of just steadily passing each fostering minute of each fostering hour of…
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When In Iquitos!
In the world of animal rescue, going above and beyond is second nature, giving until it hurts is normal, foregoing fun vacations for rescue road trips to transport fur babies nationwide is priority and sleep is considered a precious commodity. So when I was asked to assist in an international independent dog rescue mission in…
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Till Death Do Us Part
This senior distinguished gentleman is Cole. He is my Aunt and now deceased Uncle’s dog. He is deaf and almost completely blind but still manages to find a treat when you throw it like he has the nose of a coonhound. I never truly appreciated the level of sadness an animal experiences when they lose…
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You tug! No, you tug!
Oh my dog! This has got to be the most polite, softest game of tug of war in the history of tug of war. Kali the fawn and white with the sonar ears, currently available for adoption through Town and Country Humane Society as of 1/28/22, is engaging in a fierce battle of who gets…
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The Box of Shame
dun dun duuuunnn….. nasty word time….”KENNEL”. Yup, we need to talk about it. No, don’t go clicking away! Sit! Stayyyyyyy!!!!! Its that time. You have to leave the house and get Fido in his kennel. You won’t be gone long but you can’t have him out and about because he could destroy something (everything!), work…
Fur The Love of Fostering
just a girl that loves animals way too much!
Fur The Love of Fostering 