Foster a dog
Perhaps you have never considered fostering a dog, but believe it or not once you start it’s easy to get addicted!
This may sound strange but it is true for the simple reason that making an animal happy will bring you happiness.
Of course there is also pain when the time comes to hand over this dog that you have grown to love to his new owner – there will be tears, many tears. However, we should not spoil our time with our foster dog by thinking too much about our own pain, nor let the thought of it put us off fostering in the first place. The dogs in the shelter suffer much more. So, if you decide to foster a dog you must know that one day there will be a good bye – and you will do so possibly drowning in your own tears but knowing that you have given him the opportunity he was so desperate for – of finding a forever home. Not only that but you will have saved another life by creating a space in a shelter where another dog can be rescued from the street or from euthanasia at the pound.
Sibylle von Burg, who has fostered many shelter dogs writes ... "I really wish that everyone could have the experience of having a foster dog arrive in your home, when you go with him on his first walk, when he smells the scents of the forest and the grass for the first time, when he realises that his soft bed is for his use, that it is normal to get food twice a day and how wonderful it is to always have fresh water ‘on demand’.
Then come the cuddles, attention and love - what an experience it is to see how he responds to this new adventure in his life.
PLEASE, consider fostering a dog - the love you will get in return will give you the strength to ‘survive’ the good bye – and, yet, because of this good bye there will be another dog waiting in a shelter, just for you …..thank you."
This may sound strange but it is true for the simple reason that making an animal happy will bring you happiness.
Of course there is also pain when the time comes to hand over this dog that you have grown to love to his new owner – there will be tears, many tears. However, we should not spoil our time with our foster dog by thinking too much about our own pain, nor let the thought of it put us off fostering in the first place. The dogs in the shelter suffer much more. So, if you decide to foster a dog you must know that one day there will be a good bye – and you will do so possibly drowning in your own tears but knowing that you have given him the opportunity he was so desperate for – of finding a forever home. Not only that but you will have saved another life by creating a space in a shelter where another dog can be rescued from the street or from euthanasia at the pound.
Sibylle von Burg, who has fostered many shelter dogs writes ... "I really wish that everyone could have the experience of having a foster dog arrive in your home, when you go with him on his first walk, when he smells the scents of the forest and the grass for the first time, when he realises that his soft bed is for his use, that it is normal to get food twice a day and how wonderful it is to always have fresh water ‘on demand’.
Then come the cuddles, attention and love - what an experience it is to see how he responds to this new adventure in his life.
PLEASE, consider fostering a dog - the love you will get in return will give you the strength to ‘survive’ the good bye – and, yet, because of this good bye there will be another dog waiting in a shelter, just for you …..thank you."
