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Happy New Year! Yeah, I'm a few days late. Circumstances beyond my control, but I'm here now, and ready to talk to you about a subject very dear to my heart. Fostering. Since we were last together before the holidays two momentous events have happened! One -- my foster Bacon was moved to a new foster home. This was necessary for her continued growth and development. Bacon had become too dependent on us as her care givers. She was also dependent on her sister always being ther

Sandwiched in between the animal shelter and the happy furever home is a place that is crucial to the lives of many dogs and cats -- the rescue foster home. Rescue groups do whatever is needed to help dogs and cats become ready for their furever homes. While there are rescues that save almost any kind of animal you can imagine, we are focused on dogs and cats. Rescue organizations will retrieve animals from shelters for various reasons: 1. an injured animal needs recovery ti

There is a population explosion of epic proportions in the state of Georgia. Dogs and cats are currently breeding, largely unchecked, and this is adding numbers to already crowded shelters and rescues across the state. It is the job of the humans in Georgia to control the ever-growing population, and the kindest and most efficient method for that is spaying and neutering. Spaying is the method of spaying a female animal, and neutering is the male method. Both are common proce

27,000. According to a recent internet search, 27,000 dogs were euthanized in the state of Georgia in 2024. Twenty-seven thousand. Why? To understand the why it is important to understand the nature of the business. Shelters exist to house animals that are currently ownerless or homeless. They might have strayed from their home or been abandoned in some random place. Their owner might have given them up to the shelter, relinquished them, for any one of various personal reason