🚨 Chip is looking for an emergency foster or a new home to call his own! He was abandoned at the stable and has been living in the barn as a temporary foster situation, which does not feel very temporary anymore.
✅ extremely friendly
✅ fully vetted and Microchiped
✅ will sit and read with you
✅ crate trained
✅ not destructive
✅ always up for a movie night
✅ sleeps through the night
✅ loves car ride
✅ the vet staff loved him
✅ walks on a leash.
✅ does not test baby gates or boundaries
✅ the most handsome and sweet boy
✅ could probably live with other dogs with a proper introduction
❌no cats
Fill out a foster or adoption form through Familiar Hearts Animal Society
Chipmunk desperately needs a foster home or a home to call his own. He is an extremely friendly dog who loves everybody he meets. He has gotten much better walking on a leash. He has been a good houseguest. He has not caused any kind of destruction. He is a really good boy who does not deserve to be dumped and have to live in a barn, or an overcrowded foster home. We are truly doing the best we can for him, but I know someone out there can do better. Please give this dog a chance, or at least give him a share. Every share helps get him noticed and it only takes one person to help him.
Chipmunk update
Did you know that it’s free to foster? Everything is provided to you and all you do is provide a room and some love. Have you ever heard the term foster fail? It means that you fostered a dog and fell in Love with it and adopted it yourself.
I bet if you foster this dog, you may fail him from finding another home because he will stay with you.
Oh, chipmunk is desperately looking for a new foster house or a new human to call his own.
Every day he is getting a little better, and a little better, which makes me feel like he was very un socialized. But that does not hold him back from being extremely people friendly. I just do not think he was exposed to a lot. Can you give this guy a chance? He is not getting the attention. He deserves in my house. He is the fifth dog under my roof (omg) and I have been extremely busy and life lately. I am doing three sets of crate and rotate right now. If you were considering this guy, do not hesitate.
familiar heart is covering this guy and you will go through them to foster or adopt.
Happy Saturday! Wish Reed luck!
I know it’s been a while. Summer has been busy with TONS of dogs and horses. Reed is still my foster dude and he is still awesome and happy. I have never had a dog that was so happy to be at a vet office. The vet tech fell in love with him because he’s a mush.
He had blood work done to do the final check before surgery. No nuts surgery is scheduled for the end of the month.
Look who made it on TV! Smoke! He looks great and hopefull this tv spot gets him adopted and out of his kennel.
I wish she would’ve had one conversation with me before he left because the story is not quite correct. It was totally out of my hands that he got tagged and sent to this rescue from ACCT. I had been a temp foster for 2 weeks. I do want to rescue more dogs, that is true but I have resident dogs and cats. It was really the cats more than the dogs. He actually got comfortable with the dogs in my house and they could all pass each other with baby gates up with no problem. Cats, however, is a no go. I just want to be clear that I would never push a dog out of my house. Reed is my longest foster to date, and I don’t really know and end date for him. He potentially could end up in the hope program.
Stay safe and enjoy your day off tomorrow. Thank you to everybody who has served and lost their life. We wouldn’t have the freedom we do without you. 🇺🇸
Good morning from this fun fellow.
The foster pony had her first show experience and handled it with style and Grace. The Forster dog is getting his food/drink/ Walkie walk today but is not the star of the show.
It was a beautiful morning for a big walk with Reed. We worked on some of our manners out in the strange world, and he was fantastic. He is such a good boy.
Reed would love to spend the summer with you soaking up the sunshine ☀️
Reed is such a cool dog and does not care at all if my kid tags along on a bike.
Bam Bam is spending the day recovering from his nutty surgery. So Reed got the big walking spot again today.
Another horse we are fostering through Turning From Home which specifically deals with racehorses coming off the track. Our racehorse restart program helps give these horses a fresh start and a new career that will last them the rest of their life. We have had Star for almost a year now so she has come really far in her training but she is still looking for her home.
Please watch as I let smoke see dogs up close for the first time. This is an un-edited video and has a little bit of raw emotion to it. Smoke has always shown good behavior with me. But there are situation circulating that he has shown reactivity to dogs. I have not had that experience with him.
Smoke was in and out of the shelter often for a few years. Smoke would be brought in and then he would get returned to his owner. The last time the owner didn’t want him back. He ended up time stamped, and thank goodness a foster stepped up for him.
I’m pretty sure they had Smoke listed as dog selective. Most dogs are dogs selective. Especially when you’re introducing them in a high stress situation like the shelter. I have now been within feet of three different dogs with smoke, and he has been one of the better dogs that I fostered. He has shown high reactivity to cats (bless my stupid cats), and for me, that is his big bugaboo. He has a prey drive for smaller animals. but I have not seen him act negatively reactive to any dogs.
I don’t know how to build his reputation other than videos like this. I’m gonna keep working on his supposed dog reactivity to make sure there’s not something I’m missing. I only want to set this dog up for success, not failure. I do not want to put him in a Home saying he’s perfectly fine with other dogs and have something happen. He really needs to go to a home without other animals just because he deserves all of that attention and it’s not worth the risk for the years he has left for him to possibly get into it with another animal.
Now that Smoke is settled into my environment I feel like I’m seeing his true self and that is not a dog that needs a black mark against him. This is my 10th foster dog. Out of the 10 dogs I’ve only integrated three of them with my resident dogs, Diamond 💎, Waffles 🧇 and Jasmine. The other eight dogs did not get to be in my resident dogs pack. Reed definitely likes other dogs
I do lick mats and stuffed everything, and food puzzles and scattered feeding and stuff mats and this is just another feeding method that got this guy his fat rolls 🙂
Today our foster pony Addie had her first canter under saddle. This pony came to me pretty much feral with a very defensive attitude. This 12 year old kid has put almost 60 days on her and now she is a totally different pony. We basically went back to square one with this pony and restarted her like she was a 2 year old. Positive consistency and routine is key for all animals.
