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Oh heart melter's ????

Gosh I love this thread & greatly admire your dedication KTB. Thanks for sharing.

Your photos & rags to riches stories about these gorgeous dogs always brighten my day.

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Thank you! We've had such a lovely, enriching experience fostering these dogs ... It's Cricket's last night with us - he goes on trial adoption tomorrow :thumbsup: / :cry:

My husband gave Cricket the traditional pre-adoption bath - so he's soft, clean fluffy and smelling of Aloveen.

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Here he is with his Hobo Bag

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His new family can't wait to see him :)

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KtB, it shines through your posts just how much pleasure fostering has brought you & your family ???? Your foster thread is one I never miss checking in on. It makes me feel all warm & fuzzy to see how these dogs can find new forever homes with help from folks like yourself giving them a leg up.

Good luck gorgeous Cricket ????

Have fun boy...

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KtB, it shines through your posts just how much pleasure fostering has brought you & your family �� Your foster thread is one I never miss checking in on. It makes me feel all warm & fuzzy to see how these dogs can find new forever homes with help from folks like yourself giving them a leg up.

Good luck gorgeous Cricket ��

Have fun boy...

Thank you so much! We've been so lucky with all of our dogs and all of our adopting families. All of our adopters still keep in touch with us and send us updates. Some more than others, but they all keep in touch - and I know that some people never hear another word about their fosters so we are very lucky.

Cricket is doing well on trial :)

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He's still a bit fascinated by the cat but they are working on it with him and are doing well. I heard that they also took him in to Belco Pets (the pro-rescue pet store in Canberra) and bought him a dog coat, pyjamas, a car harness ... :)

Former foster Smudge (parvo survivor) did well in flyball at the Hawkesbury Show on Saturday. She ran is the height dog all day and earned another 0.000 Badge

Here is Smudge with her brother Reggie

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Here is Smudgie with her flyball haul :)

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Smudge was adopted by fellow DOLer chequeredblackdog who is doing wonders with her in flyball and agility and is kind enough to keep us updated of her achievements :)

We have a new foster arriving on Monday :eek:

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New foster was collected yesterday.

We should probably call him Marky Mark because he seriously marks everything ... We debated names - Paddington, Titan, Goliath (because he is chunky looking), but in the end Dan decided on Rookie because he is a lovely dog but has zero training and a lot to learn :)

Pound photo

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He's a Kelpie cross, not sure what he's crossed with though. He's very chunky although has barely eaten anything since he got here ..

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More information about him and photos over here at his blog. He's going to need a lot of work! Upside is, he's a lovely dog - beautiful nature, no signs of aggro towards humans or dogs. He's completely untrained but seems very eager to please people - although I hope he ends up liking food more because I've never trained a non-food motivated dog before!

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Update on Rookie here. He's making great progress. Coming out of his shell nicely. Easiest dog to house-train we've ever had.

Is finally eating properly and eats very well around the other dogs.

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Cricket's visiting for the weekend while his family is at the snow so the house is full of dogs

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Rookie's getting much more confident - happy to be cuddled, sitting nicely ... we're giving him access to more of the house and he's learning to shake hands. I think he may be learning his name, too.

Great in a crate as well.

Cricket's trial is still going well and they are pampering him

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Sunny (was Cupcake) and her previous nemesis Cinnamon the Cat have worked out an uneasy friendship at last :)

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Great update KTB. Rookie is going fabulously well isn't he. Seems to have just slotted in. Toilet trained already by all accounts. Smart fella :thumbsup: Cricket & Sunny going along just fine as well :thumbsup: Sunny is so good around the cat. All hell would break loose if I had a cat in our lounge room let me tell you. Cats bring Stella undone every time. She goes off her nut even if she spots one 100 feet away. Not sure if she wants to chase them or eat them or perhaps both :laugh:

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Great update KTB. Rookie is going fabulously well isn't he. Seems to have just slotted in. Toilet trained already by all accounts. Smart fella :thumbsup: Cricket & Sunny going along just fine as well :thumbsup: Sunny is so good around the cat. All hell would break loose if I had a cat in our lounge room let me tell you. Cats bring Stella undone every time. She goes off her nut even if she spots one 100 feet away. Not sure if she wants to chase them or eat them or perhaps both :laugh:

We're still working on getting Cricket chilled around his resident cat, to be honest. He's pretty interested in her. It took months for Sunny and Cinnamon to get along - if you see the first photo in the collage, the scratch on Sunny's snout is courtesy of Cinnamon! It happened on day 1 of her two week trial :p

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Has he just been neutered KTB? He looks like like he is coming along well.

Yup - he was desexed and had to be bucketed for a while. He's doing well now though and actually going on trial next week. The family wanted to adopt him sooner but we wanted him a bit longer to socialise him more.

Naughty Rookie :) It's been his only bad behaviour so far - counter surfing!

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Sharing a crate with Hoover :)

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Former foster Smudge, looking lovely as ever

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Former foster Maggie, recovering from knee surgery - she's doing well

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Rookie went out and about today

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His socialisation checklist is going well and his new family can't wait for him to join them! We'll miss him horribly but he's going to an owner who's an obedience instructor, has two resident dogs and is actually a foster carer for a different Canberra group. Very dog savvy so we kept him longer to socialise and observe rather than train him up - as she'll want to do a lot of training :)

We'll be taking this collar off him soon ... we'll miss him heaps. He's been one of the easiest dogs to foster ...

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Rookie went on trial adoption last week. He had a bath and posed with his hobo bag

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Not much in his hobo bag because his new family already had all the gear bought for him! Different from the families where we lend collars, leashes, crates and give them poo bags etc. :)

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Dodge said goodbye to another buddy

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Sweet Rookie

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Only a week into his two week trial, his family have confirmed that they will be keeping him and he has found his forever home. Here is Rookie being followed downstairs by his brother Hunter

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Rookie on the left and Hunter on the right

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We will miss him horribly but are very happy for him

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Some updates on other fosters. Former foster Juniper:

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Former foster Smudge and her owner were visiting Canberra and came and had dinner with us on Friday

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Left to right: Hoover, Smudge, Elbie, Reggie and Dodge :)

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Over the weekend we went to see both Juniper and Smudge run at the flyball

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More photos are here :)

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