Fostering a Golden Girl

[Logan]

Scott got this sweet picture of Gracie over the weekend. She was begging across the gate, wanting to be where he was!

Her head is filthy because she and Mack have dug out every single potted plant I had on my deck, plus they slobber on each other, constantly!

She will probably be here for a while. No updates on potential families for her yet. But all is well.

Logan

[gini]

Scott? Taking pictures of Gracie? Hmmm, sounds very encouraging to me!!

She is a real sweetheart isn't she?

[Logan]

She is a sweetheart, Gini, but she needs to go, and soon! If not, she is going to be so attached to us, and us to her, that it is going to too hard to let her leave us! She needs to go. We need our 3 so that we can foster again and I can fall in love, all over again, you know.

If he said he wanted her to stay, I would say "thank you" and send my money to the rescue, but I think they would prefer to see a youngster like her placed in a forever home and hold out for us to take in an older one, eventually, which would suit me fine. My only problem is that I see how well she has done in the last two (almost two) weeks, and I worry about another adjustment for her. She was an owner turn in and had one foster home, prior to us, for less than a week. That's a lot of adjusting for a young girl like Gracie.

Logan

[lizbud]

I admire your foster skills Logan. I would love to do foster work, but I
know myself to well by now. I'd probably just get attached & want to keep
everyone.

[Logan]

Liz, this is where I got to, mentally, tonight, while Lilly and I were on our very first "therapy" visit, which has been too long coming.

It is hard to even think of letting Gracie go, but she needs to go to a family where she can be active and the center of attention. I know this sounds crazy, but I'm ready to have Honey and Lilly be the center of attention for a while. They have waited, patiently, through a multitude of fosters before I met Scott, then Murphy, Zipper, Mack and now Gracie (and of course the addition of Butter, years ago). They deserve some "Mom" time.

I would keep Gracie in a heartbeat, but what I know is that there is another Golden Retriever out there who will be harder to place, who is older, or has a health problem, who needs us much more than Miss Gracie does. Maybe I'm getting a little wiser in my old age, but I'm learning about this fostering. Will I cry when she leaves? You'd better believe it, but I know she will only be placed in a home where everything has checked out, perfectly, and where she fits. And then when they need us to foster again, we'll have room. If we keep her, we can't help them anymore, because we would truly be at our limit.

Y'all just say a prayer that Gracie finds her perfect home, where she will be loved just as much as she is loved here. If that happens, then she will be just fine!!!! I have to believe that or I couldn't do this.

Love,
Logan, Mack, Honey, Lilly and Gracie

[Logan]

I am updating this thread, not knowing if anyone is even reading it.......

Gracie will meet her potential "forever" family, tonight, at 5. She will be spayed tomorrow, and if this family wants her, which I think they do, as soon as she is recuperated, she will head to them.

[gini]

Bless your heart, Logan. I know you will miss Gracie, but just think of what a wonderful thing you have done for her while she waited for her forever home.