Foster Dogs

Foster Dogs: The Adoptees
The following are some of the foster dogs we've had over the years. None of these guys are up for adoption, but the ones who currently available can be found on the main page.

Gus

Gus was a rescue dog who Dani adopted a year before I met her.

When Gus was first found by his rescue group, he only weighed 27 pounds, most of which was likely in his enormous German Shepard and Akita head. He now weighs upwards of 85 pounds.

This is him these days. His head is still ginormous.

Beetle & Minnie

If you can figure out what breeds Beetle was made out of, let me know. I resorted to using other animals to describe him. "Uh, he's got ears like a bat? His legs are short like a pig?" Still, he was really intelligent, even though he was gullible enough to let who fed him determine that he should like my ex-wife better than me.

Aside from the impression you'd get from this picture, Minnie seemed to be a nice, pleasant little dog. She always seemed to get along with strangers, even children, and she and Beetle always played together (sometimes to the point that you'd worry if you didn't know they were just playing). However, she growled around any other dog.

When I first wanted to start fostering, one of the coordinators for the humane society came over with a prospective foster dog. Minnie went up to the dog and put her nose out right toward his. Then she let out a low growl for about half a second and clamped around his nose, one of her teeth piercing his nostril.

Obviously when you send the foster group's representative home with a bleeding dog, that sort of puts a damper on and chances of fostering for a while. I didn't end up actually working with a foster group until after my ex and I split up and she took the dogs.

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