How many and varied are the jobs of the fosterer…Here I sit in an armchair in the hall watching over our recently-operated on dog. She's not meant to lick her wound now that the dressing is off but you try telling her that. She wears a collar at night and takes a sedative but in the day the collar drives her crazy so we take it off and simply keep an eye on her, which is time-consuming, but...
Friday, November 19, 2021
Tuesday, November 16, 2021
THE MISSING EAR BUD
Ged is now proper gone. He was the soon-to-be 18 year old who came to us for a short spell, and part of our fostering brief was to gear him up for the outside world. Only a short time but even the ones who only stay for a weekend stay in your mind for the rest of your life. I’m not sure if it’s the same the other way round and that we fosterers have as big an impact on them as the young people have...
Tuesday, November 09, 2021
A DOG"S LIFE
They say every cloud has a silver lining.Not sure if that's applicable to what's been happening in our house this week, but it's fair to say that oftentimes something good comes out of something bad.Our lovely, gentle, kindly golden retriever dog had an accident. She was 'playing' with a bigger...