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[quote=Anonymous]Glad I found this thread. The dog adoption process is so much more emotionally difficult than I imagined and we have not even had a home visit yet. I understand that they might not want to tell you if a dog is close to being adopted for fear it might fall through, but I am sick of getting my hopes up. I have fallen for dogs in person and the foster is really enthusiastic about us adopting, but doesn't mention the dog is already in the process of being adopted. I've had fosters who liked us recommend dogs and then we contact that foster and hear nothing. I've been in touch with fosters where is sounds like the dog is a great match, but they don't have time for us to meet the dog or we get a call that morning that the foster decided to attend an event and we miss the call because we were out living our lives when we would have gone if we had known earlier. I have been to events where you can adopt that day and the organization is amazing, but I liked the idea of a foster who can share lots of info.

The downside is you are at the whim of a foster parent who probably works all day and is doing so much she/he doesn't have time to deal with all the people interested. I cannot fault a foster who is volunteering to help animals in need. I just think of all the dogs dying when there are plenty of families with the time, warmth, energy, and means to give a dog a great life.Also from reading up on this it seems like we need to focus on giving a dog a BETTER life than say death rather than the PERFECT life. We know a couple who had 2 recue dogs and they fostered. They were very opinionated about who deserved one of their fosters. Low and behold after having a baby one of their own dogs snapped at the baby and they gave the dog up. A few years and 2 more babies later (twins) they gave up the other dog they owned. I have no doubt they gave the dogs they owned and fostered beautiful lives, but things happen and you cannot prevent everything. [/quote]

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