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Need a little help from dog lovers and rescue friends

Posted : 1/23/2014 10:18:05 PM

Hi, Our dog Tucker is in a photo contest and if he wins we will receive a handmade dog bed. We foster for a golden retriever rescue in the Raleigh, NC area as well as for other rescues that need help with temporary fostering as they move animals out of the local shelters, and between our fosters and our own two dogs we can surely always use a new dog bed. The contest is on Facebook, and it ends tomorrow Friday 01-24-14 at 5pm... all you have to do to help is go to this link and "Like" Tucker's picture, he is an Irish Setter in the snow. Thank you so much for your help! Here is the link:

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=584830771593866&set=a.584829881593955.1073741859.465639153513029&type=3&theater

Michele68

Posted : 1/24/2014 9:00:50 AM

Hi you got my "like" very cute pup!

momof3girls

Posted : 1/24/2014 9:46:19 AM

Thank you so very much! Tucker is such a good boy, he has been such a patient big brother with all of our fosters. We really appreciate your support! Currently we have an 8 year old golden doodle foster named Simon who until now has lived his entire life isolated in an outdoor pen with very little human or canine interaction. Here he is enjoying one of our dog beds :-) He will be with us for a few months while he completes his treatment for heartworms. We really enjoy fostering and thank you so much for helping us!

Michele68

Posted : 1/24/2014 10:07:38 AM

Nice I foster too! How long have you been doing that? I'm in it about 14 years now, mostly Rotties, Danes and Pitties, my Great Dane, Hurley has been such a huge help with rehabilitation. Poor Simon, I helped a pittie, Gracie last year who lived in a barrel for 3 years! Keep up the good work, thanks for fostering.

momof3girls

Posted : 1/24/2014 1:56:52 PM

We've been fostering for about two years here in North Carolina, but honestly it is something I have done all my life when the need arose, my mom was a dog lover and led the way :-). My own first "rescue" dog, a cockapoo type dog we called Spencer, came home with me on the back of my horse when I was fifteen. He had been abandoned in an area where there were a lot of tourists visiting, and he was one giant matted ball of mud. I was out riding with a friend and he started following us. He was too heavy to carry very far so I ended up riding him in front of me on the saddle. He was perfectly happy just to be held on the way home, he only wanted to be loved. It took us hours to clip his hair--there would be no brushing it, it was too matted--and get him back to looking like a dog. We adopted him and he lived with my parents and was much loved until he was very old and passed away.

My next-door neighbor fosters Great Danes for a NC rescue group, and one of my husband's cousins fosters for a pittie/rottie group in NH. There are so many pit bulls in need of adoption or rescue in our shelters in NC. It is really tragic.