Friday, December 04, 2009

Foster Flashback

We haven't fostered in years, but here's Tanner helping me feed the babies....His orange stands out in the mostly see of black!
Tanner snuggling a kitten. He loved the kittens and they all seemed to love him. Maybe he was soft and squishy!

Tanner in a bed of babies...I have another picture of him in this bed with about 6 black kittens. The foster coordinator knew that black male kittens were my weakness, so that's what she tried to give us most of the time! I think she was hoping I'd keep them. I have to admit I was tempted by several of them! Her plan almost worked!!
Here's Tanner when he was a foster kitten...I adopted him shortly after this picture. I'd had him several months already, since he was only 13 days old when he came to my house. When he was a couple of months old, we (the whole household) got ringworm!! It took us months to get rid of it, so he couldn't be adopted until he was all clear. Luckily, knocking as loud as I can on some wood, we haven't had it since.


Fostering was rewarding and fun, but a lot of hard work. My hat goes off to those of you who are still fostering and working with rescue groups! Thank you for all you do.

13 comments:

  1. Wow, those are great pictures of Tanner with the kittens. He's so loving!

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  2. Tanner is such a Mr. Mom!!! The picture of him hugging the wee little one is purrecious! Mom would love to foster, but she'd keep all of them and dad says 4 kitties is the limit. :o(

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  3. OH MY GOODNESS!!!!!!! The pics of Tanner snuggling the babies is making us melt! So so so cute!

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  4. What wonderful memories!!!!!! Tanner is pawsome.

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  5. Bless you for all you have done for these foster kitties! Tanner seems to be like a surrogate mother. I know my Dante has motherly instincts, too, even though he's a male. Very gentle.

    Such sweet pictures of Tanner and the babies.

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  6. God bless Tanner, how gentle he must have been with those babies! I'll bet they really did love him. I love the photo of you with all the felines, how sweet.
    cindy

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  7. What a darling Tanner is. It is so plain to see that he loved those babies.

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  8. Such cute pictures! I bet Tanner was so good with the fosters because he knew what they were going through - although he was lucky to make you his permanent mom! What sweet pictures they all are.

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  9. Tanner was a great foster dad, and a cute youngster!

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  10. Tanner was just paying back for being a foster himself! He knows what it was like and was showing those little guys the ropes!! So cute!! Good job, Tanner!

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  11. Those are lovely pictures.. What a simply lovely foster dad.. Hugs GJ x

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  12. Wow, Tanner was a great foster dad!

    Thanks for visiting our bloggie today. We're going to add you to our bloglist so we can visit you more often!

    Happy Friday, Raymond and Busby

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