HERE WE GO AGAIN - ANOTHER FAMILY FOSTER - WELL SORT OF....

[Nancy, Ned, Clancy, and Charlie]

My daughter was visiting a friend night before last when she noticed this little dog hiding under the porch.  The poor puppy had paint, poo, and burrs all over his coat.  She took him home for the night and then to the vet the next morning to see if he was chipped -he wasn't. 

Then she went to the do-it-yourself dog wash where she washes her lab, and tried to wash this little guy.  She couldn't get him clean so she wrapped him in a towel and asked the groomer there to wash him and clip the fur around his face.  She certainly felt sticker shock when she found out how much that set her back! But just look how cute he is  - all 10 pounds 11 ounces of him.

My daughter and her lab miss our last foster so much that she is considering keeping this little guy. So she went back to the vet today and so he could have a check-up and shots.  He is healthy, unneutered, has a hernia which can be fixed when he is neutered.  The vet estimates he is a 6 - 8 month old Lhasa Apso/poodle mix.

She put posters up in the area where he was found and she got an obviously bogus call from someone who just wanted a free 'designer dog.' 

I know how much she misses Sunny (now Sundance), because she saw him through 2 months of Kennel Cough, neutering, infection, housebreaking. But I really hope she finds a great home for this little guy - tentatively named Samson.  She is not really in a position to have a second dog - either financially or time-wise, but I know if she keeps him, she will make it work for both dogs, unlike so many who dump their dogs in shelters because it becomes a bit 'hard' to work out.

[Joanne ~ Spud*]

Ahhhhhhhhhh!   He found her.  He was waiting under the porch all along.

How sweet is this?   I admire a young person who tries to do their best for animals with all that they face right now.   I once took my dog to a college speech and asked that college kids consider fostering instead of adoption if they were animal lovers.

She is my hero.  Thank you, DD of Nancy