MITZI with foster mama just before leaving on a jet plane!
Shannon writes:
MITZI went to her new forever home via the Milwaukee Mitchell Airport. Keith Roscia flew in from Virginia to pick her up. Katie Gardner-Roscia has a slight fear of flying, and is also working towards her Masters, s has tons of papers due. Plus their other Cairn, Izzy Bunny, was at home.
MITZI & I arrived at the airport a few minutes late, so I was sure it would be a short meeting: Sign the contract and off he'd go. Keith was really flying in and then turning around and going right out again! Good thing he was a speed walker and left me in the dust . . . I could have never kept up. We got him pointed in the right direction and off he went . . . yep, it was a short meeting for sure!
Just not so sure what's going on . . . a bit scared!
The plane was three hours late in getting back to Virginia. Keith said if people hadn't known he had a dog on the plane, they never would have because she was so very, very good! (Heck, Joe & I raised our puppies to be very, very good!!) The flight was a good one even though it came in so late. Katie met Keith at the airport with Izzy and the meet & greet went pretty well. Katie emailed me today and said those two are inseparable already! Things are great and they love her! Another happy ending!
Well, our house is quiet and we have been slowly putting it back together. Joe pulled up all the tape holding down the tarps that the pups could go potty and p**p on. Took down the x-pens, but left a kennel up for mama HOLLY . . . that is her refuge and safe place for now. Moved most of the furniture back in the family room and back into place. Washed the nose & paw prints off the patio door windows . . . . and cried while doing it!
At the airport: Do you think my daddy is ever going to land?
This has been the most wonderful experience for both of us. Our babies were the cutest, smartest, funniest, sweetest pups ever born. We loved them and snuggled them and kissed them and tickled them, played with them and rubbed their bellies . . . and picked up enough p**p to last us a lifetime . . . HONESTLY we did!
When people ask if it was worth it . . . I reply that it was absolutely one of the best experiences of my life, and Joe agrees. I have a list of things that I would like to do in my life and this was one of them . . . I can cross it off now!! Would I do it again? You bet!!
MITZIE & her new dad
I just want to say thanks to Gayle for "letting" us foster these babies and for keeping them for us until we could get them! And to Shell & Jim, Skippy & Molly Lewis for meeting us halfway with them!
Thanks to Andréa & all her friends for the abundance of newspapers . . . we used every last one of them, and then some! And for her visits to see the pups, and the websites & pictures of them!
Thanks to Auntie Lisa, who came over once/twice a day to help me in any way she could. She donated roughly 60-70 rolls of paper towels for us to use with the pups! And hundreds & hundreds of plastic bags to place the soiled paper towels in! She came over in the very beginning to watch them so Joe & I could sneak in a nap. She helped to socialize the pups, and to teach them what they could and couldn't do . . . she definitely played a big role in raising them, too. She also made a blanket for each of them before they went home . . . she has done this with every foster we have had!
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