I am a volunteer for Looziana Basset Rescue. This page was created to highlight foster dogs looking f
03/08/2024
Bella is a sweet, senior girl who is fun, loving, and full of life. She was rescued from a shelter in north Louisiana and has been fostered in a home with multiple dogs and cats. She is friendly and outgoing, but her enthusiasm might be too much for some cats. She likes plush toys, balls, and treats. Bella was cared for as a young dog, but looks like she may have been neglected more recently. After some TLC in her foster home, though, she's looking and feeling much better. Bella is fully housebroken, crate-trained, and walks well on a leash. She is heartworm-negative, spay, microchipped, and fully vaccinated. Bella is adoptable through Labs4Rescue.
28/07/2024
Bella loves to play ball. She's a great catcher!
28/07/2024
Our new foster dog is Bella. She's a senior Lab with a great personality. She has bad skin and ears that we've begun treating, but she's already spayed and is heartworm-negative. Bella will be ready for her forever home soon.
Hogan has completed his HW treatment and he's ready for his new home. He's adoptable through Labs4Rescue. You can find out more and complete an adoption application at https://www.labs4rescue.com/.
31/03/2024
Hogan is completing his heartworm treatment and is looking for his forever family. He is adoptable through Labs4Rescue.
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A little bit about me.
I am a lifelong lover of animals. I have been “bringing home strays” for most of my life, even as a kid. I grew up wanting to be a veterinarian and wanting a houseful of pets. I had few pets as a child, though, and my joke is that I’ve been making up for it as an adult.
I bought my first house at 22 so that no one could ever tell me that I couldn’t have pets or that I could only have pets of a certain type or size. I’ve gotten all of my pets from shelters, the streets, or rehoming situations. Kittens have a real knack for finding me!
The ultimate irony occured in 2000 when I met my future husband, who happened to be allergic to animals. We managed to make it work, but I knew then that I would have to manage the number of pets that I could have. But, you know, we all need to do that. We can’t adopt every animal in need. But, we can do our part. He and I have a deal with the animals I take in. He says, “As long as it’s in transit.”
So, since 2001, I have fostered many animals (mostly dogs), providing them with a home, love, care, and guidance, until they find their forever homes. I’ve worked with numerous rescue groups, and I’ve done a couple of private adoptions. I know how hard the volunteers in rescues work to place pets in loving homes. And, I appreciate the hard work of those in shelters who care for pets while they are there and who work so hard to advocate for those pets to connect them with rescue groups and forever homes.
People ask me if it’s hard to give up an animal that I’ve fostered. They say things like, “I could never do that. I’d want to keep them all.” It’s true that sometimes it’s really hard, but the truth is that I go into fostering knowing that it’s temporary. I realize that I have a job to do and that my job is to get the animal ready for its forever home. I’ve always known that each foster pet deserved their own family where they could be #1, so I’m happy when they go to that family. In all of my years of fostering, there have only been a handful of pets who I considered keeping for various reasons, but I am confident that giving them up was the best thing for them.
I currently have 3 dogs and 3 cats of my own. My dogs are Iko (a yellow Lab rescued from the euthanasia list at a rural NC shelter with only about an hour to spare), Nina (a mutt I agreed to foster for a local shelter because she was completely feral, and who I decided to keep after realizing that she would probably never be ready for another home), and Ziggy (an American bulldog/Plott hound mix who ran away from his previous owner and came to my house over and over again until the previous owner relinquished him; I attempted to rehome him for almost a year, but he rejected every potential new owner, so I finally accepted that he had chosen us to begin with. My cats are Hazel (a beautiful Balinese adopted from a shelter in Georgia), Mishu (a Siamese who was found stray and unclaimed), and Calliope (a tabby who was found stray in a tree and never reclaimed).
