27 posts tagged “foster”
As of today, I have resigned volunteering with Missouri PitBull Rescue.
I cannot express how sad I am for having to leave, but I cannot deal with the drama surrounding this half-assed dis-organization. I agree with the mission and ideals, but I am too old to pretend I'm in high school spending my time gossiping. So many of the board members are two-faced, and the president is an outright liar.
Everything came to a head when I was asked to put together a cookbook. I got approval for it via email and went on with the printing. At the time, we were having a "dog crisis", so i said that i would pay for the books up front, then get reimbursed. That way, MPR wouldn't have to put it on the credit card.
Last week, i held a garage sale at my house, with 100% of the proceeds going to MPR. We made close to $1000 on the garage sale items and cookbooks. Once the sale was over, i told the president the total of the sale, and that i would deduct my $372 from the printing costs of the cookbooks. I had a receipt for her, and she could pick up the money whenever. She flipped the F out. She starting saying how the cookbooks were my deal, and if they all sold then I could get my money back-- which wasn't the original deal.
She told me that she would be at my house on Wednesday night at 7pm. Well, no one showed up. Finally today, 2 volunteers and a board member came over to get the money. We gave them all of our MPR items and said that we were done. They had requested earlier that the puppies we were fostering go to another house-- fine with me.
Not even one minute after they left, the president of MPR called and started yelling on the phone to my husband. She said we stole the $372 (cause we had already deposited that money into our checking account to cover the cost of the books), and now tons of pitbulls were going to die because of us. Later, she sent emails out to the group saying that we stole the money and abandoned the puppies!
I may be a lot of things, but I am not a thief, and I am not a liar. If MPR would shut their traps and sell the cookbooks, they could make $1200-- but they'd rather boo-hoo, and make me out to be an evil person.
I loved doing animal rescue. I didn't care if i was covered in dirt and dog hair, running across town to help animals. The only time i had any problems was when the board members [ie the pres] were disrespectful to me. I am so sad that this happened the way it did. I would like to do rescue again, but now I'm afraid that all organizations are run this badly.
Our foster dog, Blue Ice, was adopted today! I was not ready for it at all. The application originally came in for another dog, so i didn't even pay attention to it. I was out at a family picnic when the head of the rescue group called, and wanted to do the homecheck asap with Blue. We gave her the code to get into the house, and she picked Blue up. I didn't think anything of it. A lot of times peole will want to meet a dog, then think it over. Well, the check went really well, and they decided to keep Blue! I didn't get to say goodbye :-( I hope he loves his new home, and they take extra-good care of him.
Butterball has been wandering the house looking for Blue ever since we got home. Blue has been her playmate since the month after she came to live with us (5 months now!). The house is a lot quieter now without Blue and Butters tussling about!
Show us a picture of the pet you'd most like to have in your life.
This is my foster puppy Butterball. Of course she is in my life currently, but i am tempted to foster fail-- which means to adopt her myself. If I do that, I may not be able to foster other dogs in the future. Its a difficult decision. This baby has been with me (of & on due to adoption failures) since she was 8 weeks old-- she's 7 months old now. I love her.
Show us the most productive thing you'll accomplish today.
Today was dedicated to the foster dogs. From 11-3 we took Butterball to Petco for an adoption event with the other two puppies in the group. Cornbread is her litter-brother, and she was fostered with Lennox for a short time, so it was a fun mini-reunion for the pups. They spent the day goofing and getting tons of love from the shoppers.
This evening, we took both Butterball and Blue Ice to an obedience training class. The trainer is donating her time/knowledge to MPR to help train us to train our foster dogs. My little Butterball did so great! For an 18-week-old puppy she knows her stuff. The class was fun, but I am worn out (so are the dogs). I have a lot of good ideas to take home to train our own dogs with now!
I had a fun some-what suprise this weekend. MPR named Scott & I the featured voluteers for March! And our foster, Blue Ice is the March Centerfold. To top it off, the banner for the homepage this month is a photo of Blue and Butterball cuddling that I took! :-)
My birthday started off with a bang. My foster pup, Butterball, developed hives yesterday. We kept an eye on her all day (and kept in contact with the board members of the rescue group). Since the hives weren't bothering her, we were trying to wait until today to take her to the vet. Well, at 2:15am today I woke up because she was wheezing. Her poor little face was all swollen, plus she had hives all over her body!
We jumped out of bed and drove all the way across town to the 24 hr emergency vet. They gave her a couple shots and now she's back to normal. After all that drama, I called into work and slept in. Now I'm getting ready to take my other foster dog to the vet for a checkup.
We have a new foster dog! His name is Blue Ice (Blue for short). He has stunning blue eyes.
Blue was found as a stray wandering the streets in freezing temps. He had frostbite on several areas of his body and some minor cuts and scrapes. He's doing well now, the vet has taken care of everything. Blue is just happy to be in a home with a soft bed to sleep on!
Blue adores my husband and follows him around the house like a shadow- its really cute. I really like Blue, and am anticipating his stitches (neuter) coming out so I can give him a bath. This guy is a little stinky! :-)
I dont' have too many details, but I found out that the adopters have been approved and are driving SIX HOURS to come get my little girl on Monday. They must think she's pretty special to come all that way! I'm happy for her that she's going to get spoiled by a new home.
This means that we are either going to get a new foster pup or adult in a week or so! Yeah! New dogs to photograph :-)
**yes in the top photo she's wearing infant clothes. she gets so cold when she goes outside that we needed something for her!**
I went on my first homecheck tonight, and my foster puppy Pecan now has a new home! I already miss her :-(
At least I got to meet her new family. Pecan loved the attention the little boy in the house gave her. She even made friends with the cat!
I can't be too sad though. I now have Apple Crumb and Candy Yam to play with. They've been a handful so far. Since they haven't had as much housetraining, i've had a lot of spots to clean. I even gave all three of them baths before Pecan left for her new home!
Who needs to work out when you can bathe 3 feisty puppies?
I spent my lunch hour today transporting puppies!
Yesterday Butterball (my favorite!) went to a new foster home. I miss her. Tonight, I'm going on a home-check for Pecan- so she might go to her forever home this evening!
This is why I spent my lunch hour picking up my two new fosters: Apple Crumb & Candy Yam. They are from the same litter as my other two (which is why they have the weird food names). I didn't have time to take any photos when I brought them home, but you can see them here.
I dropped them off at home with enough time to clean up the crate, feed them a snack, clean up the snack-mess, turn around and leave. Phew! I think staying at work may have been easier-- but not as fun.
Meet our new foster puppies, Pecan Pie and Butterball. They were named after thanksgiving foods because Missouri Pitbull Rescue retrieved them on Thanksgiving Day.
These little guys came to my house yesterday. They were from a litter of seven, which had just been weened from mom and now has their first round of shots. The other pups went to different foster homes since the pups are getting too big for one person to house all seven. All the pups are healthy and will be ready for adoption soon.
We are working on house breaking them, and they are doing pretty well considering their age. Of course we've had a few accidents in the house, but the are getting the route down that outside means bathroom time. Not bad for 24 hours of training.
These little girls love to chew! I just got them each a puppy-size nylabone. Instead of chewing the nylabone they keep trying to chew on the box they came in :-) These two have so much energy. Its only 7:30 and i'm completely worn out!
I've posted a lot more photos of these guys on my flickr account.
If you want to adopt these two, or learn about their cute siblings, just click on this link.
