11/25/2025
Tis the season to adopt or foster a shelter pet. 🎄🐾
It’s the most wonderful time of the year… but not for everyone.
As we celebrate, we have to remember those who have nobody. 💔
I’m talking about the shelter and homeless animals who won’t have a comfy bed to curl up on 🛏️,
a warm caress from loving hands 🤲❤️,
a special holiday meal to fill their bellies 🍗,
or toys to make them smile 🎁.
Instead, many will spend 23 hours and 45 minutes a day in their kennels ⏳🐶, waiting… hoping… for someone to rescue them.
Fostering is free — all supplies are covered. 🙌
Adopting can complete a part of you that you never even realized needed completing. ✨💞
We know you have family festivities 🎅🎉,
We know you may be traveling ✈️,
We know you have cooking and chaos and holiday plans 🍽️🎄…
But here’s what I also know:
Once the shelter staff and volunteers leave at noon, the lights go off 💡⬇️…
the halls fall silent 🌑…
and loneliness fills the empty spaces.
With every passing second, some dogs’ hope fades just a little more. 🥹💔
And it’s truly heartbreaking.
Sometimes I wonder why we don’t put others before our own comfort — especially when doing so isn’t catastrophic, just inconvenient.
I would move mountains ⛰️ and miss holidays if it meant saving a life.
My world is often upside down, and I sacrifice so much…
but I wouldn’t change a thing, because my dogs give me joy every single day. 🐕❤️
Xoxo 😘 Stacey Life with Reef’s Operation Homeward Bound
To foster or adopt please contact me dm or email
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