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03 February 2007

I might have to break up a 14-month love affair between two kids. They grew up together as abandoned orphans on a farm. Suffered together through loneliness, starvation and the cold. They're bonded and play constantly. I don't know if I can do it. But all of my rescue group friends are finally breaking it to me that adopting two big dogs together into one good home with a fenced-in yard is pretty much a pipe dream. I'm sad.

post by: shane at: 17:02 | 8 comments

They're my foster dogs, of course, and they've been here two months, which is two months longer than I expected. They can't stay here where they can't play outside, are cooped up when I'm gone, and the keep my cats hiding upstairs constantly... It just won't work.

posted by shane 03 February | 17:05

Oh man, that is sad.

posted by dabitch 03 February | 17:33

I'm sorry to hear it, shane. I will send good thoughts about finding them a good home. But, if you do have to break them up, their sadness will pass and they'll have great lives with their new families.

posted by Specklet 03 February | 17:50

It's odd, but I become more concerned when I realized that you were talking about dogs and not people. I'll second what Speklet says, though.

posted by Slack-a-gogo 03 February | 17:55

It's odd, but I become more concerned when I realized that you were talking about dogs and not people.

heh! well, they're spayed & neutered. and animals feel things as deeply as we do. more deeply & intensely, if i'm right... much more.

posted by shane 03 February | 18:15

They'll bounce back quickly with their respective new families. You've been a saint to care for them for so long.

posted by redvixen 03 February | 20:08

Awww. Don't kick yourself in the emotional butt too much, shane. You've done wonders for these kids. If what I infer is correct, they're just a hair over a year old. The most important thing is finding them good, loving, forever homes, be that separated or together. Even if they're split up, they'll each go on to have fantastic lives.

Good on you.

posted by ufez 03 February | 20:12

Aww. Thanks, kids.

posted by shane 05 February | 09:34

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