Friday 28 August 2009

George's first day

This weeks challenge on Wednesday stamper is Dogs! I love using stamps on my scrap book pages. Ive used Blonde Moments Sweetheats stamps. Here is George's First Day.....




Ive been meaning to share George's story on my blog for a while, so here goes. I fostered for a charity called Bullies In Need. Our first foster only stayed a day, she had already found a forever home and our house was just a pit stop on her journey. However our second foster.....I had a called from the charity organised Ann, a family were going through a bad separation and the dog was surplus to requirements! A member of the charity had been and assessed him in his home and he was a big cuddle monster. He had a few medical problems which were not being treated due to lack of money, the priority for the dog was to get him back on his medication for an underactive thyroid as he had no energy and struggled to walk round the block with the assessor.

I collect him from his owners at a service station on the M1. He was gorgeous....so cuddly! After his first trip to the vet we knew he would be with us until he was fully recoperated. Over the next 2 weeks his energy levels started to pick up and he was a totally different dog. I couldnt part with him so I became a member of the failed fosters club!
He has been with 3 years. He is now 10 and I couldn't imagine life without him!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

Gorgeous layouts!

Lynne said...

Thank you for sharing Georges story Jo, George was very lucky to find you. You have far from failed in my book!! Two lovely layouts, he looks very happy.

flutterbycrafter said...

Lovely layouts. George is a lucky boy. What's that I see on your sewingmachine? It looks very interesting to me!

Julie said...

What lovely layouts - he is so gorgeous - you've inspried me to do a layout of my little chap - he's a 3 1/2 legged dog - but just like yours oh boy is he cute!!
Take Care and have a great weekend.
Ju x

sue said...

oh what a lovely story and a lovely page x sue x

SANDRA said...

Glad you shared george's story. He is a lucky dog to have found you, you can tell how much you love him. I'm sure you feel lucky to have found him too. The layouts are beautiful. Love Sandra x

angelwhispers said...

Oh Joe what a lovely story George is so lucky to have found a home with you both xx just love his layouts!! your not a failure as a foster home just look at George xx

Kathryn said...

Wonderful story! What a lucky boy in his forever home. I especially love the 'george' background paper and how happy and cuddly he looks tucked up under his blanket! I must ask you where you got that paper from for my george. K x

Net said...

Aw George is gorgeous! Lovely LO.

lena-dailyscrap said...

Lovely scrappages! I normaly don't like that kind of a dog but I have to admit that your George looks very nice and cuddly...