Fostering a Golden Girl

**lizbud** · 10-02-2006, 06:14 PM

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** · 10-02-2006, 10:09 PM

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** · 10-09-2006, 11:32 AM

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** · 10-09-2006, 12:27 PM

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.

**lizbud** · 10-09-2006, 12:51 PM

Who could forget that Gracie? Great news for the little girl. I'd love to
hear about the family that gets her.Such a sweetie deserves an active
family. Hope all goes well tonight.

**Logan** · 10-09-2006, 02:16 PM

Thank you, sweet friends. I will let you know what happens tonight, and how the sweet girl does with her spay, tomorrow.

She is a precious girl and deserves a special home.

**GoldenLuv** · 10-09-2006, 06:02 PM

i hope that she go's to her furever home soon.. she is a cutie pie.. she kinda looks like my madison

**Logan** · 10-09-2006, 06:02 PM

Gracie will be going to her forever home on Sunday, if all goes well with her spay and recovery, tomorrow. I am heartbroken and happy, at the same time, if that is possible.

I sat in the driveway, with Lilly on the leash, and Butter, at my feet, while they walked her down the street, and even Butter didn't try to follow, as I called him back, and he actually listened. They loved her, immediately, although she was as wild and crazy as I have seen her, when I took her outside. They saw her interact with Mack, Butter and Lilly, and still loved her. They saw her at her worst and at her best. I took Lilly inside and traded her for Mack, while they walked. Gracie and Mack did their tackle moves for them, and they saw everything! LOL!!

Please send good thoughts and prayers for Gracie, tomorrow, as she goes through her spay. We will put her in the crate, tomorrow evening, and for the next few days, to make sure she has the opportunity to recuperate in peace.

I'm going to miss my Gracie girl......but I know this is the right thing for her and she will have a new best friend in Guiness.

Logan