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Jennifer Trainor's avatar

Hi Emily! Liisa kovalo mentioned your writing in our last group when I mentioned I was working on something about the great experience I had fostering a dog. I look forward to reading more about your fur family!

Holly B. Gutwillinger's avatar

Hi Jennifer! We met a couple of times online at the Women's writing evening. I would love to know more about your experience. I'm Holly, but the newsletter you read was based on Emily. Thanks for reading!

Jennifer Trainor's avatar

Sorry for the confusion Holly! It was such a great first experience, I just want to share it with people to encourage them to go to shelters rather than breeders for fostering/adoption (I just feel like most people I talk to still don't get it). So maybe this is a way to encourage that? I love the fact that you take the "tougher" dogs (those are definitely my dogs but I have a frail, elderly chihuahua and she kind of calls the shots about who is allowed to stay lol). I will likely just foster for a while (I also volunteer at Pet Save a couple of times a week, so I'm in the mix when it comes to seeing which dogs really shouldn't be at a shelter).

Holly B. Gutwillinger's avatar

No worries! How awesome that you volunteer from Pet Save. I've adopted three dogs from Pet Save. She does amazing work! I had a chihuahua once as well so i know they rule the house!