Unsung Angels / Fostering

Hi,  Ernie's Mom here.   The above pictures are of Caya.  Our 13th foster pup & is about 1 year old. .  She is also very sweet & loving & lots of fun.  She is learning to trust.  She also came to us from a high kill shelter in California.
I know many of you who read Ernie's blog are fosters yourselves or help with transporting so many of these pups (sometimes even kitties)  needing forever loving homes.  There are so very many of these deserving furiends out there.  We have been doing this for almost a year. MANY have been doing it for much longer & have saved/helped  is some cases hundreds.
I wanted to take time to thank ALL of you who support these critters & help them.   It can be a hard job but also very rewarding.  Especially when they find loving homes & people to love & care for them.  I think they bring out the best in all of us.

This poem was written by "Unknown"  but it explains fostering well I think.  Whoever wrote it deserves a lot of credit  & thanks for sharing!!  Hope you enjoy!



Unsung Angels.


Have you ever loved something enough to let it go?
Even though it breaks your heart to watch, you know, that in order to
flourish it's wings must spread. In order to grow it must move on and
look ahead.


Like a first child leaving the proverbial nest, Your heart aches, but
you know that it's for the best.
You have nurtured, nursed and taught all that you can, They were never
yours to keep, that wasn't the plan.


Could you volunteer to have this pain week after week? To break your
heart quite literally, so to speak?
Open your home, your heart and your mind, to the abused, the needy,
the unloved, the blind?


Could you nurse them back from pain and despair, make them understand
that love is out there?
Watch them come back to life before your eyes, knowing soon you will
say your goodbyes?


It's a special person who can foster a dog.
Turn around its life, bring sunshine through the fog.
Be a gentle hand, a calming voice and a loving ear. Soothe all the
pain away and calm every fear.


To love it so much after seeing its pain, you prepare to let go, to
find it a new family who you know can love it so.
And when your heart is breaking as you watch it walk away, open your
door to the next dog, knowing it will end the same way.


So to you angels out there who foster, mostly unsung, thank you from
all the foster babies, old and young.
Thank you from the families whose lives you have transformed, when you
gave them that bundle that you so much adored.


Without you these dogs would have far less a chance.
Have you any idea how many lives you enhance?
Do you know how many people stand back in awe?
You are utterly amazing, you gave it your all.


Thank you for having the courage to let go.
The strength to do it again, I admire you so.
To the dogs, you are angels, their saviors and their friends.


Just know each one remembers you, with love till the end.


-Unknown


Thanks to Ernie for sharing his time with me.  I promise he has things to say so I will have to give up my ramblings.
Have a great week.  We are back home again so will be downloading some pics & sharing them with you.
Mom