# A New Foster Dog
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [May 12, 2012, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716 "2012-05-12T19:07:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2012, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/41 "2012-05-15T02:52:48Z")
> [@StGermain](#):
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> Oh, I have to mention something that made me absolutely _fume_ this weekend. I had my occasional handyman out to do some work (repair a porch, weed eat fencelines, rebuild me dogs’ ramp to the dog door). He brought his 12 year old nephew with him. He has temporary custody of the kid. The kid is useless as a worker, but he plays with the dogs. I have to yell at him for chasing Irish and trying to corner him, but over all he’s good. After about 6 hours I see him holding an insulated wire that’s attached to the hotwire I have surrounding my yard. It keeps the dogs from digging under. After playing with hte dogs for hours, he was enticing the dogs with a toy until they came to play with him. Then he’d shock them with the hotwire hidden in his other hand.
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> I told him if I ever caught him torturing my dogs again, I’d make him hold the hotwire until he screamed.
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> StG
I hope you told his uncle what he was doing. He sounds like a sociopath-in-training or worse.
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2012, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/42 "2012-05-15T05:25:44Z")
Yeah, unfortunately, she is someone’s ‘possession’ and if she is claimed there would be nothing I could do to stop it. Just hoping she isn’t. Her little personality is emerging and she is so darned sweet!
StG… I am speechless. No idea what I would have done, but I think you probably handled it better than I would have.
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### Author:  [@purplehorseshoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehorseshoe)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2012, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/43 "2012-05-15T21:30:27Z")
_My guess_: tracking down her lost dog will be too much work and effort. She won’t bother, and **PapSett** will wind up keeping the little pooch (yay!) and the original owner will just acquire a new “possession” (boo!).
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/44 "2012-05-15T22:55:38Z")
_My guess_: her shitty former owners are the ones who took her to the shelter claiming she was stray because they no longer wanted to deal with her.
This happens all the time at the shelter I volunteer at. People who surrender their dogs pay a fine. There is no fine for surrendering a stray.
I’m so glad this wee one has your to look after her **PapSett**.
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2012, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/45 "2012-05-15T23:01:48Z")
I had never even considered that the person that brought her in might actually be her owner… I guess because my mind doesn’t work that way.
I seriously don’t think the little thing has ever had her nails clipped… one of them was DOUBLE CURLED back upon itself. I am still working on that one to try and get it corrected and will probably have to have the vet do it; I can’t even get the clippers in to cut it like it should be.
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/46 "2012-05-19T16:31:35Z")
**PapSett** - The week for the owner to claim is up. Is she yours??
StG
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/47 "2012-05-19T22:18:27Z")
She is MINE. No one even called to ask about her. I will go Monday to do the final paperwork. Her little personality is emerging more with every passing day. I got my first kiss from her yesterday. 🙂
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### Author:  [@EddyTeddyFreddy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EddyTeddyFreddy)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/48 "2012-05-19T22:31:54Z")
🙂
_does happy dance_
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [May 19, 2012, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/49 "2012-05-19T23:24:58Z")
> [@PapSett](#):
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> She is MINE. No one even called to ask about her. I will go Monday to do the final paperwork. Her little personality is emerging more with every passing day. I got my first kiss from her yesterday. 🙂
I’m so glad!
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### Author:  [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2012, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/50 "2012-05-20T00:37:15Z")
Those may be the most fabulous ears I’ve ever seen. She’s adorable,\*\* PapSett,\*\* congrats on the new family member, and good for you for rescuing this girl.
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2012, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/51 "2012-05-20T01:25:55Z")
YAY!!!
StG
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2012, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/52 "2012-05-20T02:21:26Z")
What an extremely lucky dog.
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/53 "2012-05-21T17:04:31Z")
Just a wee update… it’s official! Twelve minutes and $40 later and Macee is officially mine. I took her in to get microchipped and do the paperwork and I think the poor little thing thought I was going to leave her there again, she started shakig violently. WEhen I put her back in the car, she made a gigantic leap from the passenger seat into my lap and gave me about a hundred kisses. 🙂
Bunny, my younger Papillon, was SO glad to see her come home; pretty sure she remembered me taking Cricket away and coming home alone. When I sat Macee on the floor, Bunny sniffed her all over and gave her a ton of kisses.
My little family is complete again. Those who have passed before will never be forgotten and in my heart forever, but one thing I have found so very true over the years- your heart can always expand to include ‘another’.
Anna
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### Author:  [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/54 "2012-05-21T17:26:07Z")
Oh, I’m so glad! I’m anxious to see what the vet says about her.
StG
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### Author:  [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/55 "2012-05-21T17:30:34Z")
> [@PapSett](#):
>
> Just a wee update… it’s official! Twelve minutes and $40 later and Macee is officially mine. I took her in to get microchipped and do the paperwork and I think the poor little thing thought I was going to leave her there again, she started shakig violently. WEhen I put her back in the car, she made a gigantic leap from the passenger seat into my lap and gave me about a hundred kisses. 🙂
>
> Bunny, my younger Papillon, was SO glad to see her come home; pretty sure she remembered me taking Cricket away and coming home alone. When I sat Macee on the floor, Bunny sniffed her all over and gave her a ton of kisses.
>
> My little family is complete again. Those who have passed before will never be forgotten and in my heart forever, but one thing I have found so very true over the years- your heart can always expand to include ‘another’.
>
> Anna
Reading this just made my day!
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/56 "2012-05-21T17:52:35Z")
And here’s a little bonus… I was sitting here holding her, and my FaceBook PM alert dinged. It was my friend Monica, the Animal Control manager, telling me to call her. I did, and she said Macee had gotten an ‘annonymous sponsor’ so they are crediting the $40 back to me!
I have some really great friends!
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### Author:  [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/57 "2012-05-21T19:19:26Z")
This whole story has made my day too. Thanks for keeping us up to date!
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### Author:  [@Sailboat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sailboat)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/58 "2012-05-21T19:37:00Z")
Another failed foster, I see. 🙂
Kudos for going the extra mile for the smallest and most vulnerable!
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### Author:  [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/59 "2012-05-21T22:56:22Z")
Ah Sailboat… I went right into this one KNOWING I was going to fail at fostering. I mean… who else in their right mind is going to be adopting an ancient little dog like this??
I don’t know how long we’ll have together but I intend to make her time her GOOD time.
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### Author:  [@Buttercup\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buttercup_Smith)
#### Post date: [May 21, 2012, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/a-new-foster-dog/621716/60 "2012-05-21T23:09:25Z")
Bless your heart!
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