Thanks everyone for the kind words. The dogs need prayers. Every single shelter, both high-kill and no-kill, are completely filled and even have a waiting list. I have called and/or emailed every single place here in Michigan, as well as several places in Ohio and IN, and no luck. I had to call the former owner on Sunday and tell her that things were not going well with the fosters, and that I didn't trust them at all with my cat. She agreed to pay the boarding fee if I drove them to the boarding kennel that they go to when the former owner is on vacation.

I feel really bad and I am completely out of ideas on what to do with the dogs. I actually really like Bogie, the GSD/chow mix a LOT. She is a very sweet dog who is extremely loyal, and her heart is crushed. She had not eaten since she was with me. She kept waiting for her former owner to come back through the door that she walked out of. She is absolutely devistated. I even spruced her food up with yougert and she a bit of the yougert but left the food. Cady is a chow-hound so she gobbles her food pretty good.

I had to take them to the kennel for two reasons:
1) obviously I can't trust them in my house with Minion
2) they are not crate trained and the crates were stressing them out too much.

Now they are at the kennel, but in a week they are booked up and they can no longer be there, so I have to get them out of there before then.

The adoption event went well for every single dog and puppy, except for Bogie and Cady. All were adopted except for them, and to make matters worse, a couple of people commented about how unfriendly Bogie was (she was moaping at the back of her crate, too broken hearted to greet people) and how "ugly" Cady was. It did not go well. It was all-in-all a crappy weekend. I have two other last options to try. Thanks for the suggestions, Molly! HUA and Best Friends' Animal Sanctuary. I have called both places and hopefully I'll get a call back from one of the two. If either place will take the dogs, or even one of the dogs, the next step will be trying to figure how to get them there. I will figure that out later, though.

If neither of those places can take Bogie and Cady, then I am going to suggest their former owner, who was a dead-beat dog owner, to do what's best for the well being of the poor dogs and get them humanely put to sleep, and be with them until they breathe their last breath. It's certainlly the least she can do for them. I have been working my butt off and racking up huge phone bills trying every single place I could think of who could take in these poor dogs. I have been looking for shelters or foster homes in three different states, posting their flyers all over the place locally, and, after HUA and Best Friends, I will be 100% out of ideas and options. I have given it such huge effort, I just hope that the former owner takes my advice if these last two efforts fail. I am so upset. It is just so unfair to those poor dogs. The dogs have had absolutely no obedience training, pull out of their collars, run off, don't listen, their nails are really, really long, they stunk to high heaven, they had not a single toy, blankie, bed, chewie, and they were on the cheapest, crappiest food that came in the biggest bag at Costco. They were not loved and nurtured. When I asked the former owner to give me a very detailed bio on each dog, including likes, dislikes, where they sleep, what toys they like, what their feeding schedule is like, are they weird about having their feet/ears touched, any health problems they have experienced, etc., and since she had the dogs for many years, I was expecting a really good bio on each dog and I simply got a short paragraph consisting of two long sentences for each dog! My gosh, when I have someone babysit Graham and Kersey, I write a BOOK about EACH DOG! It just pissed me off so much, and made me SO aware of the huge problem we have here in the US with pet ownership.

Anyway, I am exhausted from trying. I am not going to get my hopes up about HUA and/or Best Friends, but I am trying to imagine them accepting Cady and Bogie with open arms. I am sure if one of the shelters do accept them, then everything else will fall into place, and finding a way out there will be easier then everything else I have been doing.

Please wish me luck, and perhaps if there are any prayers left, please pray for either an opening at a HUA or Best Friends, or ultimately, a very quick, painless death in the arms of the only "mom" they have ever known if nothing else.

Thanks so much for the kindness everyone. I trust that if I have to suggest the dogs get PTS, you all will not blame me for having to suggest such a fate for these dogs. I know that I will be grieving and if it comes down to that, I would like to know that I can come here to grieve with the support of my good friends here at PT. It won't be an easy thing to do, especially for Bogie. She's a special soul stuck in a disobedient body.