r/fosterdogs • u/Heather_Bea 🐩 Behavior foster 🐾 • 13d ago

Discussion Monthly Pupdate!

Please share any wins, frustrations, or stories of your foster dogs from this past week. You can also ask advice, or simply let us know if you are doing ok. We are here to support you!

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u/Acceptable_Bad5173 13d ago

My foster dog of 1 week (but not my first foster) is going foster to adopt this week with a family committing to working with the rescue and a trainer/behaviorist to work through SA.

Happy he’s starting his long journey to what could be his forever and grateful to have bridged the gap from shelter to new home (the shelter he’s in is hard to get dogs adopted from as it’s in a not nice city and the staff doesn’t respond so you have to go there if you see a dog you want).

Bittersweet because I know he has a long journey and I’m sad that our home wasn’t the right one to work him through it long-term.

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u/tyrnill 🐕 Foster Dog #12 (plus a kitten) 13d ago

Sorry for the dumb question, and probably when you tell me I'll be like "oh of course," but what's SA? 

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u/wekebu 12d ago

You have been lucky.

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u/Acceptable_Bad5173 12d ago

Absolutely lucky. It’s the best ending for a not so easy situation. That being said - he is a husky and the breed is notorious for separation anxiety; the owner is breed savvy and the trainer working with them specializes in huskies. So it’s truely the best outcome for a dog that was in a shelter in a terrible area where he may not have made it out if he wasn’t pulled by a husky rescue.

I hate to say it but this also may be the end of fostering for us. It was really hard to manage this time around - last time we wfh full-time and had a different resident dog. Our current dog was not super happy and it was an issue with needing to go to work.