zac Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 I got hooked up with a local rescue group and I'm going to be a foster home for animals they rescue since they don't have a boarding place. People around here never get their dogs fixed so there are way too many than there are people that want them (see the show Last Chance Highway on Animal Planet). The local shelter here has to euthanize so many animals because of overcrowding because only 19% get adopted. I pick up my first one on Tuesday. Anyone else ever done this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 Fostered a cat once. Ending up keeping it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicole Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 total respect for anyone who does this. i'd love to, but my house is full and i know i'd never be able to give it away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 My brother's girlfriend does this for Chihuahuas. I don't know why those dogs, because they suck, but she's got like 6 of them right now. One has 3 legs and my brother's lab/pit bull mix always torments that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
randysxe Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 when i lived in san diego, there was an amazing organization called FOCAS. i volunteered with them and fostered many cats! i loved it, ill forsure do it again when i can! i totally recommend anyone to do this, pretty rewarding for everyone involved! loved it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roadmonkey Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 I rescued one of my cats. We were very close to giving him to a new family but in the end decided to keep him. Kinda happy that we did too.. The cat is so awesome Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zac Posted August 29, 2010 Author Share Posted August 29, 2010 There is no way I'll be able to keep any of the ones I am fostering. I have a puppy of my own so I can't really afford another on to keep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicole Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 I think it would be so hard to give them up. They get just as attached to you as you are to them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonesomexloveus Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 is there a bigger problem with shelters being overcrowded/having to euthanize adoptable animals in the south than in the north? i ask this because i was watching a show on animal planet the other day (yes, i love animal planet) and this husband and wife had rehomed thousands of dogs that they rescued from kill shelters in the south and were talking about taking them up north to find homes for them. whew, run-on sentence. also, one day i would love to train service dogs. once i have a place big enough to house multiple animals, that is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburbanargyle Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 You know, this is a really cool thing to do but I fear that people sometimes go overboard with it. I have a beagle mix that was a rescue dog, and she was being fostered with a family that had like 10 dogs. She was treated well enough, I'm sure, but she definitely didn't get the attention that she needed (I can kinda tell this from her personality). She's incredibly sweet but had a lot of issues with trusting us that we are still working through. But, it's better than keeping them locked in cages I'm sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suburbanargyle Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 is there a bigger problem with shelters being overcrowded/having to euthanize adoptable animals in the south than in the north?i ask this because i was watching a show on animal planet the other day (yes, i love animal planet) and this husband and wife had rehomed thousands of dogs that they rescued from kill shelters in the south and were talking about taking them up north to find homes for them. whew, run-on sentence. also, one day i would love to train service dogs. once i have a place big enough to house multiple animals, that is. It seems like it. There's a huge problem with overcrowded shelters here in south Texas. Oh yeah, training service dogs would be awesome. A lot of Marine detachments I've worked with have had dogs with them, to sniff out IEDs and bad guys. I've got so much respect for dogs that work, it's so awesome. And the Marines absolutely love them too, they treat them just like one of their own. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcm1610 Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 I won't do breeder dogs anymore - my family dog, Lucy, is a pure-bread Yellow Lab that my aunt originally had but couldn't keep, so we took her as a pup. My dog, Miley, is a choc lab / Aussie shepherd mix that is a rescue. She never came from a shelter, though, she was actually stolen from a crazy-abusive house, then passed around by people who couldn't really take care of her until I ended up with her. Then she got crazy-sick and almost died, and then she recovered and we all lived happily ever after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
partysmasher Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 Never fostered but we got a rescue cat a month ago and she's so shy but so awesome! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sonix Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 i know i'd never be able to give it away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zac Posted August 29, 2010 Author Share Posted August 29, 2010 is there a bigger problem with shelters being overcrowded/having to euthanize adoptable animals in the south than in the north?i ask this because i was watching a show on animal planet the other day (yes, i love animal planet) and this husband and wife had rehomed thousands of dogs that they rescued from kill shelters in the south and were talking about taking them up north to find homes for them. whew, run-on sentence. also, one day i would love to train service dogs. once i have a place big enough to house multiple animals, that is. Yeah I mentioned that show in the first post. This rescue I'm working with placed 650 animals last year that were gonna be killed. It's a big problem around here, they ship animals up north too sometimes. Also I only have one dog and I only plan on taking in one other at a time unless they needed me to really take in like two but there is no way I would have more than that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snaggle Von Swift Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 give people who do this a lot of respect. I get attached too easily, so I wouldn't be able to do it, a buddy of mine did and went from having no animals to having 3 cats and a dog that he just couldn't give away after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicole Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 in toronto all our shelters are really over crowded, but the majority of them are no-kill so they only euthenize the terminally ill ones. that being said, there has been a lot of controversy in the past year at both the toronto humane socienty and the OSPCA. they do "adopt-a-thons" regularly where people can adopt the pets for free. all you have to pay is $150 which you get refunded to you when you get the animals fixed, which i think is a great idea. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted August 29, 2010 Share Posted August 29, 2010 My girlfriend's parents live in TN and strays seem like a huge problem. They've taken in two stay dogs that just wandered into there yard in the last year or so, kept one, and also took in a stray cat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dillhole Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I never have personally, but my sister took in 3 cats and kept them all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I want to hug everyone that says they rescued an animal instead of buying an animal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nicole Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I want to hug everyone that says they rescued an animal instead of buying an animal. +1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtw88 Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 How much is a hug worth in paypal $$$? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benchwarmer Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 How much is a hug worth in paypal $$$? right now, $0, since that's my balance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flood Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 before we had our mini zoo, we always talked about fostering... but seriously i would never be able to let the dog leave once it was mine for like a week.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xjustinxschwierx Posted August 30, 2010 Share Posted August 30, 2010 I would never be able to let the dog leave once it was mine for like an hour.. and what nicole said. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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