Foster Puppies
1:33 PM Monday, July 4, 2011Brad and I have been proud foster parents to a variety of puppies over the last year and a half. Our two dogs, Sunny and Logan, have been good at socializing the puppies that come into our home.
Okay, honestly? Sunny has been good at teaching them lots of hyper behavior (she's a terrier mix) while Logan sleeps and eats his way through life.
It's not that Sunny is a bad dog.
She's just a bit unruly sometimes.
Most of the time.
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But she loves the puppies, the smaller ones, and usually has a great time playing with them because she likes to be very active, although sometimes they really wear her out. It's good for the puppies to have that kind of experience.
The cats are good for them because they teach the puppies you don't mess with cats.
He chased a rather large lab mix puppy around the house a few times. But hey, she didn't want to learn so he had to keep at her until she did learn.
Which she never did and she wore all of us out with her super massive non-stop energy streak. She didn't last a week with us.
I'm frequently amused by the puppies always bringing into our house the toys that Sunny and Logan have abandoned outside. Sometimes they bring in toys we haven't seen in months/years.
Sometimes it's not so bad giving the puppies back at the end of a week. Other times, it's extremely difficult to let them go.
The cats are good for them because they teach the puppies you don't mess with cats.
Especially Ralph.
He chased a rather large lab mix puppy around the house a few times. But hey, she didn't want to learn so he had to keep at her until she did learn.
Which she never did and she wore all of us out with her super massive non-stop energy streak. She didn't last a week with us.
I'm frequently amused by the puppies always bringing into our house the toys that Sunny and Logan have abandoned outside. Sometimes they bring in toys we haven't seen in months/years.
Sometimes it's not so bad giving the puppies back at the end of a week. Other times, it's extremely difficult to let them go.
But about the same time I start feeling sad about letting a puppy go, I take a look around the house. I see the demolished toys, the dirt, the huge dark stain on our carpet from multiple puppy accidents.
We have to enjoy the fostering of puppies now while we are broke because when the day comes we're not broke anymore and can afford to replace this terrible carpet in our house, we might decide that we don't want puppies having accidents on it.
I think our lives will become just a little bit sadder that day.
Then I decide that it's probably a good idea to take a break for a couple of weeks.
We have to enjoy the fostering of puppies now while we are broke because when the day comes we're not broke anymore and can afford to replace this terrible carpet in our house, we might decide that we don't want puppies having accidents on it.
I think our lives will become just a little bit sadder that day.
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