I remember feeling frustrated at times with how quickly we'd secure foster homes for puppies, or mommy-puppy combos while working at Miami Dade Animal Services, circa 2010. Reason Being: During my time at MDAS, I'd spend days of intense networking and socializing a number of high-risk, larger adult dogs at any given time, doing everything in my power to get these dogs adopted, fostered, or into a reputable rescue (rescues like Miami Dogs on the Move, or Big Dog Ranch) in time . This was one of those 'at-risk big dogs' I helped get out, Mega Event, Miami, 2012, thx to Tracy Deering for fostering this guy! With many, I had success. With others, time ran out, and I lost some dear 4-legged friends to euthanasia. But when it came to puppies and/or mommies with pups, we had much better luck with finding fosters or rescue fast . It could be disheartening, working on a specific at-risk dog for days, just to have a pair of cute puppies come in, and be fostered out t
Part 1 was "Are You a Young Person Considering Re-H oming Your Dog? Consider This." - A link to that blog can be found at the end of this post. In this post you'll read an email correspondence between a PAFP adopter and me. I've simply copied and pasted the emails here. - Of course the adopter's name and email address are omitted for her privacy. For the reader's reference, the dog this email refers to had been confiscated by a county shelter due to neglect. The dog then spent nearly 1 year in that shelter's custody until the owner's court case concluded. Then our rescue took her in, she spent approximately one month in foster care, was adopted out to a lovely lady, returned to us within 24 hours, then about a week later, was adopted out to the person that sent this email. -She's a gorgeous hound dog. -Sharing this could help someone else. 😊 ------------ Wed, Oct 6, 1:11 PM to me Hi Jess