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Local Pets need Foster Homes and Fur-Ever homes

Local Pets in need of homes. Can you help Foster? Can you adopt? There are people willing to help you accomplish this!

There are many animal shelters and pounds around Connecticut, and there are ten times or more the number of unwanted pets looking for homes. There are many stories associated with each pet from simple to complex, and each story will pluck on your hearts strings for them to be safe and placed into new fur-ever homes.

From their owners getting sick or dying and needing to give up their pet, to those animals who are abused in the most cruel ways. Still these pets find the love in their furry little hearts for the right human, in hope they will come and claim them for their own in a new home and fresh start at life again.

Sadly, that is not always the case with them all. The local shelters and volunteers spend countless hours in desperation to find them homes, documenting their health conditions, their personalities or quirks and how well they interact with other dogs, cats, as well as children, and what home environment would best suit each shelter pet looking for a home.

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The pet pictures are circulated thru many numerous media sources in an effort to find homes and place these pets. There are smaller pooches and cats that are laid back for for older folks needing a little companionship, and lap dogs looking to return love to someone, as well as larger breed dogs looking for a rope to tug on and play with someone. Each just looking for someone to love them back. They have so much to offer.

There are many pit bull terrier mixes as well, who at no fault of their own have been bred for the latest fad of the time. They have fallen victim to the stereo type label placed upon their backs of being mean and vicious. Rest assured this is not the case. There are some, dont get me wrong, but it is in how they are raised. I believe there are only bad owners, not bad dogs. Usually once evaluated at the Shelter, the differences are quite clear and noted.

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However, the public usually isnt aware how really loving these pit breed dogs really are. They are over bred by humans, taught to fight by humans, abused by humans, and then labed as killers by humans... All no fault of their own.

I have recently added a pit mix to my fur family named Sheldon, who is a little Mush dog. He weighs in at 50 lbs. and sweet as can be. He also loves my cats! What an Angel he is, and I am so blessed to have him and adopt him into his for ever home with us. He was saved from a high-kill shelter in North Carolina and shipped up this way.

Thankfully spared from his sure fate of being killed. His personality was shining thru and a wonderful Rescue group called Potters Angel Rescue from Vermont, had him pulled thru the network to save his life.

A wonderful organization called Middle Mutts arranged transport for several Rescued pets and shipped up this way in efforts to find homes. There are many Rescue groups willing to pull these dogs and cats, and many locals as well in need, but they need our help.

Foster homes are desperately needed, as well as adoptees willing to give a needy pet a forever home. Without you, these lost and abandoned pets have no chance and face a certain fate. I have found having two dogs is no more work then having one. The fun they are having and the joy they bring in watching them play is well worth all my efforts.

Please check out your local pounds, shelters, various Facebook groups which advocate for these precious souls. These are a few such as Connecticut Animal Rescue Network, Middle Mutts, Forever Home Crossposting Page, CT Lost & Found Animal Page and a Middletown group called Running for Rescues. There are people who have spent their time getting the Pets faces and storys out there in an effort to gain exposure, network and place them in homes.

They are always willing to assist anyone with questions or answers and connect them with the Shelter that a particular dog may be located. See a pooch that plucks your heart string?... They are happy to help! They do so much work assisting these pets, and continue to give of themselves. I thank them emmensely...and I thank their efforts for finding Sheldon for me...

Contact anyone on the pages and let them know you can foster — you'll be put in contact with a rescue group to help.

Please visit a shelter and spend sometime visiting the pets, they are more than happy to come wag their tails for you, and maybe pluck your heart strings too!

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