Foster Puppies!: April 2008

Fuzzie

Our new foster dog:

She was rescued from an animal hoarder with thirty other dogs.

I can't imagine we will have her too long...she is just too adorable.

I went to the humane society to fill out the application for fostering. Actually, I made Tim fill it out so I could spend time with the poor doggie prisoners.

It was so sad. Most of them were shaking and some were whimpering. I fell in love with a black and white pit bull mix named Nellie. I scratched the top of her head and she bent her head forward and pressed into my hand.

If I didn't have my husband, I would have brought her right home. But Tim put the kebosh on my psychotic plan.

Anyway, they said they would probably have puppies for me within a few weeks. So I have been reading all I can about bottlefeeding and puppy care. I think we will just have orphan pups, but I wouldn't mind having a mother dog here, too.

I really love caring for the mother dogs, because they work so hard taking care of the puppies.

After spending several days pondering my place in the universe, I am going to go to our local humane society tomorrow and fill out an application to bottlefeed orphan puppies.

Annie and I are both quite desperate for some puppy love, so it should be fulfilling.

I would prefer to foster human babies, but we don't have room in our house or our car. So until we have a little more space, I will stick with the canines.

I am literally twiddling my thumbs. How odd.

Last time I felt this bored, I had another baby, but that doesn't seem like a good idea at this point.

I could clean the house, but I am not going to.

Janie and I had a great spring walk, with birds singing and bunnies and lizards running from us.

Well.

My littlest one scratches the neighbor's beagle in just the right spot:

Inspiration

“Christianity is not about building an absolutely secure little niche in the world where you can live with your perfect little wife and your perfect little children in your beautiful little house where you have no gays or minority groups anywhere near you. Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.” -Rich Mullins

"If all misfortunes were laid in one common heap whence everyone must take an equal portion, most people would be contented to take their own and depart." - Socrates

"Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing." - Helen Keller

"Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.” - Henri Matisse

"What works good is better than what looks good, because what works good lasts." - Ray Eames

"Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal;but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal.For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." - Matthew 6:19-21

"Everybody is a genius. But, if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it’ll spend its whole life believing that it is stupid.” – Albert Einstein

" I am not afraid... I was born to do this." - Joan of Arc

"People new to Ivey's world see a puzzle missing pieces. But, I am convinced, unwillingly convinced, Ivey is WHOLE. She is all of the things we all should be, minus the things that really are unimportant." - Gwen Sirmans

Foster Puppies!

Fuzzie

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