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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.
05/07/2023
08/06/2023
Our new foster dog is Buddy! He's about 7 years old and he is adoptable through Labs4Rescue. He loves balls, stuffed toys, butt scratches, and kisses. He had no tail, so he wags with his whole body and you'll never get whipped by that hard, Lab tail. He is the happiest boy, and he gets along with other dogs, cats, and kids.
16/04/2023
This was one of my foster dogs. He was adopted in Massachusetts, but he's been returned to the rescue and is currently in boarding. According to the adopter, he was aggressive with their dog. He lived with my 4 dogs and 2 cats and was not aggressive. He is strong willed and would be best with someone who can be firm, calm and confident, though. He had orthopedic surgery to correct a broken leg, and he was with me through his physical rehabilitation. I'm in Louisiana, so bringing him back to me is not an option. A home in New England would be preferred.
Sebastian #8 is an adoptable Dog - Chocolate Labrador Retriever & Basset Hound Mix searching for a forever family near Killingworth, CT. Use Petfinder to find adoptable pets in your area.
06/04/2023
Griffin is a silly boy with lots of unique quirks.
06/04/2023
Griffin likes to give nose taps.
03/04/2023
Our current foster dog is named Griffin. He was terrified in the shelter, and he is still a timid boy with a lot of distrust of people. He loves to play with others dogs, though, and he discovered squeaky toys today. We'll be working with him to get him more comfortable with people and life in a house, and when he's ready, he'll be adoptable through Labs4Rescue.
19/03/2023
Look at Joey in his new home!!!! He's already found his cozy spot.
12/03/2023
This is what fostering does.
Joey was scheduled to be killed in a shelter on December 15, 2022. But, he got lucky. Despite being timid and HW+, he was saved by a rescue. He was treated for heartworms and placed in a foster home. He has learned how to live in a home. He's housebroken, crate-trained, walks well on a leash, knows how to sit, takes a treat politely, and loves playing with his foster sister.
Joey is now adopted and waiting to be transported to his new home!
Want to be a part of a story like Joey's? Reach out to a rescue group near you and apply to be a foster. You won't regret it!
23/02/2023
Look at this cute, little elf! Auggie is settling in and making progress in her foster home. She is learning more manners and gaining more confidence. Auggie will be with us for a week or two before going to Hope for Animals Rescue to be fully vetted. Once she's ready for adoption, she will be up for adoption and will be transported to the Northeast by Labs4Rescue.
21/02/2023
We took in a temporary foster today. She'll probably be with us for a week. Her name is Auggie, but we think that she looks like Dobby the elf from the Harry Potter series. She's about 8 months old, smart, treated-motivated, frisky, sweet, and very silly. Like any mischievous elf, she needs some work on manners, but she is learning fast. She gets along with dogs and cats, and she'd be great in almost any family.
Auggie will be adoptable through Labs4Rescue.
21/02/2023
Sweet, little Joey has another two weeks of recovery from HW treatment, and then he'll be ready for his forever home. He's good with dogs and cats, might be a little shy at first and may not be best in a loud home or one with small children, and he loves curling up on the couch and sunbathing in the yard.
08/02/2023
Meet our new foster for Labs4Rescue. Joey is a small Lab mix with a sweet and very calm personality. He's finishing up heartworm treatment and will be available for adoption in about a month.
14/01/2023
Sebastian and I got some snuggling in this morning. ♥️
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Bella loves to play ball. She's a great catcher!
This is what happens when I try to do Sebastian's massage and passive range of motion exercises. It's mostly just a lot of wiggling and nibbling! #fosterdog #physicaltherapy #bassador #sillyboy #puppyenergy
This goofy girl had her first HW injection one week ago and is doing great. She'll be ready for a forever home soon. Bonus if that home comes with a fridge with an ice dispenser!
Marjorie passed her kid test with flying colors. Thanks to Tyler for doing such a great job!
Marjorie is learning the joy of treats! (And how to sit and take a treat nicely.)
Sally loves playing on Iko like a jungle gym.
I'm pretty sure all my pets hate me right now for bringing home a puppy to foster.
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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).
