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4-foot Ball Python Finds a Foster Home with Animal Friends

Aug 29 2013

By Amy Green, Interim Adoptions Team Leader “Let me know when it’s out of the bag!”  My name is Amy Green and I have a snake in my house. My roommates are less than thrilled.  Over the past year that … →

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Tails of a Foster Fur Mom: Food Bowl Woes

Apr 10 2013

Guest Blogger: Susan Gottfried The hard part of having multiple cats who are on multiple diets is keeping the proper noses in the proper food bowls. I had done this before, with my Devon Rex rescue cats. Chanterelle had been on … →

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Adventures as a Foster Furmom: Part 2

Nov 02 2012

By Volunteer (and foster mom): Susan Gottfried  After a year of fostering kittens, the kids told me they wanted to foster some adult cats. I tried to explain to them that it generally doesn’t work that way. That Chris Whyle, … →

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How To Become a Foster (Fur)Parent in 10 Easy Steps

Oct 22 2012

By Volunteer (and foster mom): Susan Gottfried   My journey into rescue began, really, in the spring of 1994. My sister, the vet, called me. She was still in vet school at the time and I was finishing up graduate school. … →

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