ASPCA SUCCESS STORY OF THE WEEK: FOSTER FLUNKIES

[Omaha Steve]

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ASPCA SUCCESS STORY OF THE WEEK: FOSTER FLUNKIES

The Masons were already a three-dog home when they began fostering boxers for a Michigan rescue group. Friends warned that once they took the rescued pooches into their home, there was a good chance their pack would grow. However, as Deb Mason reports, “Everyone said we’d be ‘foster flunkies,’ but we made it through our first four fosters without adopting.”

Then Josey arrived.

“She was emaciated and sickly when we took her in,” Deb says. By the time her fostering session was over and Josey was ready to find her forever home, the Masons had nursed her back to health from just 36 pounds to a healthy 55 pounds.

“We had a family come to meet her for a possible adoption,” Deb says, “but they had just lost their boxer and decided they weren't quite ready for a new dog.” Deb’s husband saw this “defeat” as an opportunity. “He declared that no one was going to take Josey away from us,” Deb recalls. “So she became ours.”



Though Josey had shown aggression toward unfamiliar dogs, she immediately got along with the Masons’ three other pooches. “She is an extremely loving dog,” Deb says, “and she quickly became a member of our household.”

The Masons also found out that Josey has a silly side. “Her favorite antic is to spin in circles and then flop over on her back and look at us as if to say, ‘You look funny upside down!!’ It cracks us up every time she does it.”

P.S. As it turns out, their friends were right—the Masons really did turn out to be “foster flunkies”; they adopted another rescued boxer just last summer!

[havocmom]

1. NOBODY can love someone quite as well as a rescued animal

loves his/her new family. When it fits, it is magic.

Thanks for the post OS. Just the right start for the day! :hi:

[michaz]

2. We Love Our Rescue Weim!

He had been chained on a short chain outdoors with very little water given to him. He has large bumps under his neck from a shock collar and when he had to have an x-ray on his back leg, the vet said he was also carrying buckshot! When we got him he couldn't sit for any length of time and couldn't sleep. We had to put him on "puppy Prozac". he now is great and he is as happy to be with us and we are to have him. It is amazing what people will do to animals. There are so many sick people out there!