Featured Volunteer
Lock Family
What AARCS Has to Say
We are blessed to have the Lock family joined AARCS. With 4 kids, there are lots of hands to help with the MANY puppies living at their home. What they deal with on a daily basis is nothing short of amazing. With a great set up for mom’s and puppies, they have fostered up to 10 puppies at one time! Nursing sick babies back to health and helping scared and timid mom-dogs learn to trust and enjoy life. Not to mention the vast about of poop and pee to clean up! Loretta and family currently have a mom dog who gave birth this past weekend to 9 babies. You can keep up-to-date on her puppies at http://lovetocreate.blogspot.com/ as they grow and in a couple of month become available for adoption.
The Lock family is dedicated to AARCS and do everything with a smile! Thank you so much for being such a big part of our cause. You have helped save so many precious lives and we appreciate all you do.
A Few Words from the Volunteer
A friend told me she was fostering puppies. All I could think was, ‘Puppies for free and then they are adopted and more puppies come?’ It sounded like heaven to me, so my friend forwarded a Desperate Plea for Foster Homes email from Deanna. I signed up along with my family because whatever one does, we all do.
On December 26th, 2008 we received our first foster mom and her 2 surviving puppies (Bree, Pudge and Whisper). Since that humble beginning we have fostered 47 dogs to date through AARCS and we are hooked. We didn’t know in the beginning how rewarding it would be to provide the care necessary for an animal and watch it grow and thrive before our eyes in a very short period of time. My kids have learned so much about round worm, tape worm, ring worm (not a worm), lice, fleas, mange, and a bevy of other ailments that could have been fatal to these dogs if AARCS hadn’t brought them in. I hold all the rescuers in highest esteem for the sacrifice of time, energy and comfort to bring these amazing animals in for fostering and then adoption.
We scoop poop, make vet runs, make puppy stew, feed and feed again, mop up, scoop some more, play, train and count it all a privilege to saving the lives of our foster dogs. We talk to anyone who will listen about our fosters, trying to get the word out about AARCS. I know the work all the foster families put into their dogs, and I believe we are doing very good work for the creation we are accountable for. Forward ho, people! If there is even one dog left needing us, we will continue.
Thanks for all the dogs you have blessed us with, AARCS!
*I can't find a picture of me with the dogs, or Mike, so I hope kid shots will do.
