It’s been two and a half weeks since I did my last post. (Sounds like a confession, doesn’t it?)

My last post was about fostering a dog that I’d really grown to love. Well, she has since been adopted out to a great, loving family and I’ve been told she’s very happy. Yay! I realized that no matter how badly I wanted to keep her, I just couldn’t give her everything that she needed. I’m okay with that. :)

Since then, we have fostered two more dogs. An adorable little puppy and, currently, a black lab mix. The puppy definitely brought more life into our home, I tell ya! Not to mention mess: pee puddles, doggie toys and shredded ankles and wrists. He was quite the guy! I knew he would get adopted quickly, due to being so cute and cuddly.

Baby Girl, the lab that we currently foster has been with us for almost two weeks. I’m praying that she will go to the right home, because it’s taken us this long just to help her be comfortable and learn to trust again a little bit. I am attached to her, I admit. It’s just so hard not to be. When we first got her, it was an incredible effort just to get her to stand up because she was so full of fear. Playful? No way. Affectionate? Oh yes… sooo incredibly affectionate. To get her outside into our yard, and back inside the house, we had to carry her. It wasn’t that she wasn’t capable of walking. She just was too afraid to.

I’m thrilled to say that now that she’s been with us for these two weeks, she is starting to play a little, lets us know when she wants to go outside, she comes in on her own, and she even gives kisses. :) That may not sound like much, but it really is. She went from being a terrified dog who dropped to the floor instantly, to a dog who instantly stands up and wags her tail when she sees her leash. Yay!!

Letting her go will be hard, but I know it has to be done. Not for just my benefit, but for hers. I’m beginning to understand why my boss does this everyday, why she can’t say no to a newly rescued dog, and why it is so hard for her to let them go. She cares. And now I care. :)