My First Doggy Blog

So here's my first entry - If you read my profile you already know that I'm a foster mom for puppies that need rescue.  I work with a group called BARC here in the St. Louis Area. 

(If you happen to want to know more about BARC, here's the link - http://www.barcstl.org/ )

Anyway, we rescue from the St. Louis City pound, and we just grab whatever little guys we can as often as we can.  I just started officially doing this back in March.  A friend of a friend had a Pit Bull that they claimed they just couldn't house train.  I offered to take the puppy in for a week and house train her, considering it comes easy to me for some reason.  Her name was Daisy and she was about eight weeks old back then.  She looked just like Petey from the Little Rascals show.  She was black and white colored, with a big black ring around one eye.  She was a crazy little one... so fast, and so mischevious, but house trained in a matter of days, and for the most part fairly well behaved.  She had a bit of a food agression issue, but it took us all of a day to work that out and she became really well adjusted in no time.  She went back to her owner for all of two days before they decided that they really didn't want to keep her.  I took her back in and found her a home with the help of a rescue group, and thus began my foster care for puppies program. 

I've always taken in puppies that people decide they don't want.  My dogs, Sadi and Mocha, seem to adjust a bit better to puppies than they do grown dogs, so we try to stick to the youngsters.  I sent some emails around to rescue groups asking about whether or not it would be odd for me to say that I want to provide foster care, but ONLY for puppies... and EVERY rescue group in the state replied, or called me with a resounding NO! It would not be odd to ask that, and please, please take some puppies from us!  Apparently there are a lot of foster homes out there that specifically request to NOT have puppies.  It makes sense when you think about it ... puppies are high maintenance, and they need house breaking, they chew, they are a bit destructive, they get sick, puppy teeth are really sharp, they eat your shoes .... Y'know - they're PUPPIES! 

I happen to be a stay at home Mom of two boys, ages nine and eleven, and my kids don't need my constant attention anymore.  Because of my spoiled rotten living situation, and the massive amount of free time I have on my hands, I don't have any problem handling high maintenance puppies.  Actually, I LOVE it!  I just adore having puppies around the house, even with the chewing, biting, peeing, and pooping.... I still love it.  They're my babies, and I wish I could keep every one of them that come through here.  I just couldn't handle having five or six full grown dogs running around, so it works out that I get them as pups, get them healthy, spayed/neutered, and then adopted out to good loving, forever homes.  And as soon as one goes .... another pup worms it's way into my house and heart and we start all over again!

So that's my story, and some of an explanation as to what I do and why I do it.  All puppies that are ever posted here will be available at some point on Petfinder.com for adoption.  Plus, if anyone is ever interested in one of the puppies that are posted, feel free to email me at awintrode@gmail.com.  I'd be happy to answer any questions that anyone has.  I'll be adding more entries often.  Check the most recent post to see what puppies are current staying with us.  Thanks for reading, and please come back often!

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