There are so many happy and sad things to fostering, but the most emotional part has got to be when they find their forever home!
Specifically, I only have one foster right now, Rukia. Her brother and sister got fixed a few weeks ago and adopted the weekend before Christmas. Rukia was held back because she was too small and had some kind of infection, not bad, but enough. So, I nursed her to health and a good weight. For the last week, she's been our only foster.
Let me tell you, I, at least, get WAY more attached- I mean, dangerously attached- when I have just one foster. So naturally, with her being tiny and slightly sick and my only one, I got attached, anyway.
Then I made the mistake of promising her, when she went to her spay today, now that she is big enough and healthy enough, that she will be sore, but we will be there for her and she'll come right home and we'll spoil her right back to health, and then she'd find her forever home.
WELL, ends up, I lied!
She's not coming home at all!! I was just told this. She's going to the foster lady's house, because someone wants to look at and likely adopt her.
Every foster suddenly leaves me, it's the only way I can give them up! So it's not the suddenness, it's that I'm breaking my promise to her!
This has never happened! All the fosters always come back home to recover before they get adopted out...
Guess I've learned my lesson- you never know what will happen when fostering! Don't make promises you can't keep...
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm totally thrilled that she will likely be adopted in 48 hours and at her forever home!!
I'm just also sad, I'm actually crying! I'm an emotional mess.
Still, can we get some good vibes that these people like Rukia and that she has indeed found her furr-ever home?
Specifically, I only have one foster right now, Rukia. Her brother and sister got fixed a few weeks ago and adopted the weekend before Christmas. Rukia was held back because she was too small and had some kind of infection, not bad, but enough. So, I nursed her to health and a good weight. For the last week, she's been our only foster.
Let me tell you, I, at least, get WAY more attached- I mean, dangerously attached- when I have just one foster. So naturally, with her being tiny and slightly sick and my only one, I got attached, anyway.
Then I made the mistake of promising her, when she went to her spay today, now that she is big enough and healthy enough, that she will be sore, but we will be there for her and she'll come right home and we'll spoil her right back to health, and then she'd find her forever home.
WELL, ends up, I lied!
Every foster suddenly leaves me, it's the only way I can give them up! So it's not the suddenness, it's that I'm breaking my promise to her!
This has never happened! All the fosters always come back home to recover before they get adopted out...
Now, don't get me wrong, I'm totally thrilled that she will likely be adopted in 48 hours and at her forever home!!
Still, can we get some good vibes that these people like Rukia and that she has indeed found her furr-ever home?