Celebrating 5 years
of Cairn Terrier Rescue
2001 - 2006
Col.  Potter Cairn Rescue Network
"Learning from the Past, To Improve the Future"

Fostering by Pat P

Me foster?!? I would never be able to give them up! I fall in love with dogs too easily.  I'd end up with a dozen dogs! Well sure enough, I got my first foster, Dillon.  He arrived at 2:30 in the morning.  The driver handed me a muddy bundle of fur that had a pungent odor I had never smelled before.  I took Dillon outside, offered food and water (neither of which he touched) and put him in his waiting crate.  Dillon was straight from an eight year life at a commercial breeding facility.  He had been neutered and vetted for almost a week and now found himself in a house in a crate.

That first week together was a big adjustment period for Dillon, but more so, for me.  I cried for Dillon's plight at least once a day.  I had to teach him how to eat out of a bowl.  At the thought of how he was fed in the past, I shed tears and hugged him until I thought it would hurt him.  Dillon couldn't be bathed because of the neutering.  I got some dry shampoo which was guaranteed to take away odors.  No, it did not work.  But the brushing and the dry bath did make Dillon resemble a Cairn.   The poor little boy was filled with matts which I cut out while he patiently stood still with his tail tucked.  I talked softly to him the entire time and was as gentle as I could be.  Over the next few days I had cut out most of the big matts and was now going to attempt to get some of the hair out of his eyes.  Dillon had a dropped ear which I thought made him cute.  I went to cut some of the hair from that ear and there was only a half an ear! More tears, more hugging.  The vet said that it looks as though the ear was bitten off!

Many more tears, lots of hugging.  I began to suspect that Dillon couldn't hear.  I took him to the vet who let me know that his ears were so packed with debris and infection that he couldn't even see the ear drum! More tears, more hugging.  The vet suggested that we flush his ears.  That being done, more problems were discovered.  X-rays showed that Dillon had debris on both sides of his ear drum.  The x-rays also revealed that Dillon had two separate skull fractures which were the result of severe blows to the head.  More tears, more hugging.  Oh what this baby had endured!

It turned out that Dillon had to have an ear drum removed.  He is very hard of hearing and doesn't see too well.  He also has trouble with balance due to the ear problems and head injuries.  As more and more of the filth came out of his coat, Dillon's personality began to emerge.  He seemed to sense in the first few days that life may be headed in the right direction.  He wagged his tail whenever he saw me, learned to drop and roll over to expose his belly for scratches and even learned to lick in appreciation.  All of the baths uncovered a little golden boy who held his head cocked in order to make sense of the sounds he did hear and to keep his balance.  That cocked head just added to his precious look.   Dillon obviously thought he had died and gone to heaven.  He just loved life.

As you may suspect, I flunked fostering my first time out.  I adopted Dillon who is now named Alex.  Two years later he is still enjoying each day to the fullest.  He is golden outside and in.  I got a new baby Cairn last summer named Rosie.  She and Alex are best friends.  Alex plays with her constantly and she has become his ears.  When I open the door to bring my five Cairns into the house Rosie goes and nudges Alex and runs toward the door.  She then waits for Alex to go into the house.  Alex may think he is in heaven and now he has his own private angel!

Meeting Alex and watching him blossom from a scared, filthy little creature to a happy, healthy pet just made me want to continue to help dogs like him.  I've had eight other fosters so far.  Not all of them have been so ready to trust humans as Alex was.  But they all grew to that point.  I have five Cairn Terriers of my own.  (Only Alex is an adopted rescue.) I train them as service dogs in whatever their talents and interests fit.  Alex comes to work with me.  I am a professor teaching education.  What better helper than a special needs dog! Dooley is a therapy dog and also trained to do search and rescue live.  He also enjoys agility.  Gracie is a therapy dog who also does Fire Prevention work and Humane Education with primary children.  Edy is my ADHD doggie child who does what she wants to do.  And Rosie is now 8 months old and has earned her CGC (Canine Good Citizen) and will go onto Obedience and therapy.  Hopefully, she will join Gracie in her Fire Prevention and Humane Education work.

My other eight fosters are all in loving homes.  Was it difficult to give them up? You bet it was.  But when you see the love in the eyes of the new moms and dads, you know this dog is going to love living as much as Alex does.  Waylyn, Filip, Chives, Baraboo, Monti, Lance, McBeeVee and Ralph each own a part of my heart.  Each taught me very special lessons and has made me a better person.  Each has also given to my own dogs who have learned patience and sharing because of them.  Each of these boys has given me the opportunity to be witness to their growth from a dejected, often abused little creature to a loving pet.  I truly believe they are my guardian angels.

We are very pleased to introduce another one of our wonderful Foster Homes during this February when we celebrate this aspect of a Cairn's  journey through CPCRN.  Since the number of foster homes far outweighs the days in the month, we have asked 5 (one for each year of Col.   Potter's existence) to tell us their story.

Enjoy reading about the Cairn Retirement Home in sunny FL and our Foster Mom, Ruth H! Attached is a collage of pictures of Ruth's  foster dogs and her own Silky and Rosita (ROZEETA)! Also please check our home page: http://www.cairnrescue.com to read about Ruth's current senior lady - Lissette (our current Featured Foster Dog) and a report  on Tavish - one of Ruth's Happy-Ever-After foster stories - written by  his forever Dad.  Thanks for Ruth for all she has done for CPCRN and we  look forward to many more years of hearing tales from the Retirement Home for Cairns.  Maybe someday they will get that Cabana Boy they have  been asking for ...  ;-)

The Celebrate CPCRN Team

--- The Retirement Home for Cairns

Silky, my blonde Cairn Corgi, became my forever princess in April 2002.  Her owner had died and somehow she landed at Joan F Pyrangel Rescue with 9 other Great Pyrenees.  Neither one of us had a clue about Cairns or Corgis but Joan went to her rescue resources and found Col Potter.  It was hysterical to watch Silky herd the Pyrs around Joan's backyard with the Pyrs in bewilderment as to what was nipping at their heels!

Joan was a wonderful rescue role model and unfortunately we lost her 2 years ago to a heart attack.  I helped her get vast quantities of dog food from distributors and listened to her rescue stories.  I read the foster information on Col Potter and the posts on CRM and filled out an application with seniors as a preference.  At the time it was unusual but it's great that so many have found the fun with the golden agers.

My first foster was ROZEETA, a 10 year old tiger brindle with a white Zorro mask who has the distinction of being the first foster on the ALY EXPRESS CAIRN AIR.  She weighed 6 pounds and looked too small for her coat; after being diagnosed with severe kidney failure, the one thing she wasn't being treated for, we were able to get her on Nutro only and no meds with 5 more pounds to boot after 7 months.  Now ROZEETA had selective incontinence--if she was mad at you, she made sure you knew that she left you presents; if it was a medical issue, then she would go to great lengths to hide the "mistakes" including maneuvering heavy cotton rugs.  ROZEETA was the founding member of The Retirement  Home for Cairns.

ROZEETA was one of the first fosters to get a Grandmother when Aly initiated the foster grandparent and angel program to raise funds to enable Col Potter to accept critically ill and injured Cairns.  She suggested that I write to her, so I sent an email as ROZEETA, complaining about the bossy blonde Silky and Grandmom wrote back, along with Auntee Bandit (she actually gave her the name ROZEETA) with similar complaints about her blonde Cairn sister.  It was tough to explain to ROZEETA that Grandmom, who bragged about her granddaughter in Florida, was actually a few months younger than Mom! And that is how Kathy G and I became great friends; she is such an asset to Col Potter! I still miss ROZEETA.  She went to the Bridge just 2 months  before the CRAP where she was going to meet Grandmom--Kathy Garis.  It's hard for me to even write about it now.  She was my only foster flunkie.

The next foster was Carey, a young ACTIVE male Cairn who got to meet everybody at the first CRAP in NY.  He went on to be a trucker dog and his new name is Casey.  Broc was also a young male who was dentally challenged in the worst way but that never stopped him from smiling and being happy; he is now in high cotton near San Jose with Kirk J who also fosters (and flunked!).  Miss Emi, neglected for 2 years as her owner suffered a fatal illness was abandoned by her owners mother and rescued by Danny M and now lives as a diva with a couple who are active in the Lions Club (Emi is an honorary Lioness, with her own jacket)a nd have a legally blind daughter.  Emi was blinded by dry eye neglect, but she didn't know.  Tavish, a beautiful silver wheaten was an owner surrender who at 11 had been kept in a laundry room in a crate for most of his life.  He now has a Scottie sister in Florida and a wonderful family.  Shamrock and Penny, both 14+ and backyard breeder dogs were adopted at Thanksgiving and are now romping around Mike's  backyard in Atlanta.  Alice, one of the ladies in the 80's, has a loving  home in Albany, NY along with Ethel, a Corrine foster.  Alice hates the snow so Ethel gladly plows a path for her in the yard.

Then we come to Brandilu (Miranda) who at 15, now almost 16, went from a couch potato foster to a DIVA forever dog.  All she did was cross the street and she immediately established herself as she who must be obeyed! She has gotten a new lease on life by bossing the two 3 year old dogs--a Cairn mix and a Gordon Setter mix, chasing squirrels and lizards, barking out orders--her arthritis is much less painful now as she struts around, checking out her Queendom!

Q: Tell us about your own dogs - past and/or present and how they feel  about the fostering experience (we know you can read their minds!)
 Silky is the boss around here and at one time or another there's a fight and we make a trip to the vets for some antibiotics.  She just doesn't like her space being invaded and she has no clue how to play.  She keeps reminding me that she was an only dog in her formative years and I tell her that she needs to share.  She is not buying into that although she has mellowed quite a bit.  I make sure that she knows that she is the forever dog.

Q: What special things have you done in the past to prepare your foster  dog for their new home or what things would you like to do?
 I make sure that their vet experience is very positive so that they look forward to a stay when I need to go away; I also treat them to a "spa day" on the day before I return--pedicure, wash, style and blow dry, massage--so boarding is a fun experience.  I use positive reinforcement to help them adjust with the priority being that they are special and loved very much.
None of my fosters have looked back when being placed in their forever homes--which is a GREAT compliment to the Matchmakers.  These guys know when they are in the right place; it's so funny when they do look at me, its with an expression of "who are you?" And that is how it should be.  I have also done a number of HSIs and they make you realize that there are some great homes out there that can do even more for your foster than you can.  Do I miss them? Sure, but nothing beats a letter from the forever home telling me how happy they are!

Q: Any hints, suggestions or advice for new foster homes or volunteers  who are considering fostering?
 Tile or wood floors, paper towels, plastic gloves and most of all, happy attitude!

 Q: How would you finish this sentence? "I love fostering because....  "
 Iits the only investment of love, time and resources that is guaranteed to return so much more than you give.

Ruth

As an introduction to our 3rd featured Foster Home - Kaaren J in  Kansas, we remind you of some highlights from the article that appeared  "In The Spotlight" of the premiere issue of the Cairn Terrier Times  (Fall 2003):

Kaaren J has fostered more dogs than any other Col. Potter  volunteer. Kaaren has had as many as 10 fosters, in addition to her own  dogs, at the same time. Kaaren's rescue work began when she volunteered  to check out a cairn in Springfield, Missouri. The cairn had already  been adopted, but then Kaaren heard about another cairn in the same  town that was an owner surrender. Kaaren and her husband, R made  their second trip within a week and the owner surrender turned out to be Taz, whom Kaaren and Richard adopted. Besides caring for her dogs, Kaaren recently started a scrapbook with at least one page for each  foster.  She says she can't think of anything else she has done that has been so emotionally rewarding as fostering, both because of the joy it brings to families we adopt to and because of the other volunteers,  who have become like a second family.

***Interview with Kaaren J - Foster Mom - CPCRN***

Q: How did you find Col. Potter and begin volunteering originally?
   I have been with Col. Potter from the very beginning.  I had owned two  cairns and wanted one in my life again, so I joined the AOL cairn chat  group.  Some of that group, Danielle included, were active in rescue  and actually helped me find my Taz. When the original Col. Potter was  tragically killed I sent in a small donation. Many others sent  donations too and those multiplied like the miracles of the loaves &  fishes enabling an organized cairn rescue organization to get a start.   In the fall of 2000 Small Paws Bichon Rescue could not leave a cairn  pup at an auction they attended so they bought him for $15, brought him  to Topeka to be vetted & then began looking for a cairn rescue to take  him. I truly do not remember whether I volunteered or was asked to take  him into foster, but I did and I have been fostering ever since.

 Q: What made you decide to foster? Was there a particular catalyst that made you want to foster - a person, an event, a dog?
   I had always thought that to adopt and/or foster children would be a  good thing, but my husband was reluctant to do so.  When we retired I  wanted to do some type of volunteer work.  My love for animals made  fostering a natural choice.  It is much easier to get a husband to  agree to foster a dog than a child.

 Q: Tell us a little about your first foster and your memories about that first fostering experience
   The puppy I agreed to foster after Small Paws rescued him was a black,  one of the few dark ones I have had.  I named him Munchkin, using one  of the pet names Danielle often used when commenting on pictures.  He  was only with me about 3 weeks.  His forever Mom drove all the way from  Texas to get him and arrived on Halloween, so I sewed a pumpkin costume  for him to be wearing when she first saw him.

 Q: What do you do in "real life"? We'd love to hear about your family and what you do when you aren't fostering or volunteering with CPCRN.
   My husband, R and I have been married 45 years and have two children, R K & K.  Both are married, live nearby and  between them have given us 4 grand-daughters.  I worked for the State of Kansas all my working years, retiring as an accountant.  Before I  got into Cairns, I was into horses and competed many years in distance  trail riding in the North American Trail Ride Conference.  The sport  required riding about 50 miles in two days.  I kept stands of bees for  many years also - hence the screen name B...K and the large collection of honey pots.  I no longer keep horses or bees, but my many other hobbies remain.  I have done needlework since I was a teenager,  so I knit, crochet and do counted cross stitch in the evenings while I  watch TV.  I prefer large projects.  In the summer I enjoy working  outside in my garden.  My favorite flower is the tall bearded iris and  I now have over 500 named hybrid varieties.  I sell starts of them  during bloom season and enjoy hosting garden clubs & other visitors who  wish to see them. I am an amateur photographer; that hobby has served  me well when I submit web write ups for my fosters.

 Q: Who do you consider your foster "support group?"
   Danielle R, Karen P. & Judy W have always been more than willing  to help with any problem.  Members of CRM can be depended on to laugh  with you at life's comedies, support you during it's tragedies &  understand your concern when poop doesn't look right, or doesn't appear when it should, or does appear where it shouldn't.

 Q: Tell us about your own dogs - past and/or present and how they feel about the fostering experience (we know you can read their minds!)
   Taz was an owner surrender directly to me, supposedly because his  family was moving to a smaller place and the daughter was entering High School and wouldn't have time for him.  I soon learned that the true  reason was that he was fear aggressive and they probably had no idea how to deal with the problem.  He bonded quickly to Dick & me, but  would snarl, snap & growl at anyone else entering our home, including my grandchildren.  I got much good advice from people on the AOL cairn  board, but it took years of work to make him a social dog.  Fostering has made him much more tolerant of other dogs, as long as they don't  get to-o-o-o much of his Mom's attention.

Tuff was one of my earlier fosters, one of four dogs released by a  breeder.  She was heartworm positive, missing a toe, had a collapsing trachea that made her wheeze a lot and her ears crumpled from old  untreated infections.  She has a heavy coat that made her pictures look  like I had photographed Cousin It.  After she had been with us for 9  months Dick asked what I wanted for my birthday and I told him that all  I wanted was to adopt Tuff.  She has been in congestive heart failure  for a couple of years now, is totally deaf and has forgotten that she  was ever housebroken, but she still gets excited about her dinner & she  dances, twirling her little tail.  In earlier years she loved the  puppies we sometimes got, but now she just snaps at them with all four  of her teeth & warns them to keep their distance.

 Q:What is your favorite foster memory?
   I treasure the times when I am present at the first meeting of my  foster and its forever family and the cairn knows that they are the  ones.  I have had so many fosters that without my scrapbook I could not  remember each one clearly.  Some do stand out though.  Pansy & Poppy were perhaps the 2nd & 3rd most damaged ones I ever had.  Neither  seemed to have any concept of interaction with humans.  Pansy, in fact, was so terrified that for months she would literally stool out when  picked up.  The litters of puppies are a lot of work, but the reward is  laughter every day at their antics.  Tears come too, when I think of  Bailey and little Matthew who went to the bridge without getting their  forever families.

 Q: Any hints, suggestions or advice for new foster homes or volunteers  who are considering fostering?
   My fostering philosophy is that caring for the cairns is somewhat like  caring for my grandchildren.  I give them a safe place to be, encourage  them, feed them well and love them while they are with me, but I am  extremely glad when their parents come to get them.

 Q: If the Foster Dog Genie of the Lamp granted you three rescue/foster wishes, what would they be?
   I would wish for a terrier proof fence around my 10 acres so they could  zoom & hunt vermin in safety.

 Q: How would you finish this sentence? "I love fostering because ........... "
   It is perhaps the most rewarding thing I have ever undertaken and  because the people that are drawn to rescue are the best humanity has  to offer.

On our last day in February, we would like to introduce you to TWO special foster homes.  As you read their stories, you'll understand why they are presented together - some very special bonds tie these two foster Moms together - Lisa N and Kaye K.  Please enjoy meeting these two Foster Homes and sharing in their love for their Cairns and Cairn Rescue.  And their pictures are pretty darn cute too!!
The Celebrate CPCRN Team

Foster Home - Lisa N

My name is Lisa N and I live in the Pacific Northwest with my husband M who is a police officer, I am a legal secretary.  We have three furkids of our own - Reilly who is 8, Ragen/Sissy who is 7 and our CP kid Reggie who will be 4 in May.  M and I are home bodies who love to spend time with our babies.  I always say "I lead such a boring life, but I am happy as can be." We do some traveling, but only if Mom can watch our babies, since we don't trust anyone else.  We foster, do home visits and transports when needed.

I heard about Col.  Potter from the breeder of our first Cairn, Reilly.  I had emailed her to say hi and give her an update on Reilly.  I also told her about a little Cairn - Cassie - that I had recently adopted and lost after 8 months.  Cassie came into a rescue for senior dogs in Montana after she had been dumped at a shelter after her owner had died.  One day I saw her picture on the Internet and there was something about her that tugged at my heart.  I immediately called my mom and told her about Cassie.  Mom had been thinking about getting a Cairn and we decided to drive to Montana and get Cassie for mom.  When we got to town and called Donna who ran the senior dog rescue, she told us about another Cairn that was just brought in - 10 yr old.  Stuart.  Well, as you can guess, we drove away with two Cairns that day and it wasn’t long before I had fallen in love with Cassie and convinced mom that Should keep her while she integrated Stuart into her home with her Shitz tsu Molly.  I think Mom knew all along that she wasn't going to get Cassie back.  As it turned out, I only had her 8 months before she went to the Bridge.  I didn't realize it at the time, but it was the beginning of my love of rescue.  When I told our breeder about Cassie, I also told her I would be willing to take any senior kids that needed a home.  She forwarded an email that our own Danielle had sent to breeders asking for foster homes in my area and suggested I contact Danielle about fostering.  I emailed Danielle and heard back right away and somehow I just knew fostering was for me and I had found my volunteer niche.

My first foster was a six year old male named Orlando from a commercial breeding facility.  Of course I was terrified after reading all the information on commercial breeding facility kids and hoped I would be able to do right by Orlando.  When I got Orlando (aka Landy) home he immediately lifted his leg and peed on the refrigerator and I learned how invaluable belly bands are.  Once Landy was available for adoption, there weren't any applications on him for a number of weeks and I was feeling bad because no one seemed to want my adorable little boy with his flop ears.  Then the day came when I saw he had an application and I burst out crying at work at the thought of someone adopting my boy.  He was my first foster and it was so hard to think of him going, but we already had three Cairns of our own and four would mean I couldn't foster.  How could I flunk on my first one???????????   Then I had a brilliant idea - maybe Mom would adopt him!!!  Being the wonderful mom she is, she said yes and now my adorable Landy is Oliver Twist K.  and I get to see him all the time.  It couldn't have been a more perfect home for my first foster.

We did go on to flunk fostering with our second foster Reggie.  The day that Landy/Oliver went to my Mom's, I noticed that our 2 yr.  old Roxie as acting lethargic and it turned out we lost her one month later to an aggressive oral cancer.  We were devastated and not sure how we were going to make it though the loss and then Monika called about an owner surrender in a nearby state.  He was 2 yrs old and was being surrendered because he would dig in the neighbor's yard and had killed a mouse.  We agreed to foster him and decided within about 2 hrs of having him that we had to adopt him.  He is very much like our Roxie and we like to think maybe she sent him to us.

Some of my fondest memories about fostering come from my foster Zoya who had lived in a commercial breeding facility her entire 6 years and was by far the most damaged kid I  had fostered.  When I got Zozo she was in heat and was not able to be spayed.  She was pretty grouchy, so I kept her separated from my kids for the first week.  I decided to take a chance and see how she would do mixing with our kids.  When I moved the baby gate, Zoya came right out and did the cutest little bunny hop down the hall after Reggie.  It was so adorable and she was so happy.  She was still afraid after that, but couldn't resist coming out of her crate every evening when I played with our pups.  Zoya learned about toys and really liked these little soft rubber balls, she would poke them with her nose and pounce on them.  It was so cute it actually brought tears to my eyes watching her.  Even though Zoya was afraid of me, she didn't want me too far away and would stand at the bottom of the stairs after I had gone up and bark until I came back.  As soon as she saw me coming, she would run and jump back in her crate, but the barking would stop.  Zoya was one of the hardest fosters for me to let go because of her fears.  She had started to trust me and I wasn't sure that another family would have the love and patience this scared little girl would need.  But, our very own Denise F adopted my girl and Zoya could not have found a better home.  Thank you Denise.

I love fostering, it is the most rewarding thing I have ever done.  Not only do we get to help these precious little souls, but we also bring such joy to the new families that adopt our fosters.  I have made wonderful friendships with people from all over the country because of Col.  Potter and the support for foster homes is incredible.  My foster mentor is Heidi J and she is just the best  Heidi is always available for questions and there to check in and give us support on the day our foster is adopted.  I consider her a friend and wish we lived closer.  I can't say enough about Col.  Potter and the wonderful dedicated people that run this amazing organization.  I have had eight fosters and every adoptive home has been so impressed with Col.  Potters.  I finally nagged my mom long enough and now she is fostering too.

Foster Home - Kaye K

Q: How did you find Col.  Potter and begin volunteering originally?
 Thru my daughter Lisa N.

Q: What made you decide to foster?
 After adopting Lisa's first foster Orlando now Oliver I decided that this something that I would like to do.

Q: Tell us a little about your first foster and your memories about that first fostering experience
 I flunked my first 2 fosters.  I have fostered 3 others.  One is in Florida, one in Minnesota and my last one is close to where I live, only about 50 miles from me, so hopefully I will get to see him now and then.  The experience is wonderful but the heartbreak when they leave is awful but on the whole it is worth it.

Q: What do you do in "real life"? We'd love to hear about your family and what you do when you aren't fostering or volunteering with CPCRN.
  I am retired -- yeh yeh!! I worked for the State of Washington for 40 years.  I have 3 human kids and grandkids, and 3 wonderful fur babies.  I go to the gym 4 to 5 times a week and in the summer do a lot of yard work.  And of course spend a lot of time with my pups.

Q: Who do you consider your foster "support group?"
 Heidi J is wonderful and of course my daughter Lisa is a big help.  Plus everyone else in CP

Q: Tell us about your own dogs - past and/or present and how they feel about the fostering experience (we know you can read their minds!)
 I have 3 babies that are CP kids.  I have had dogs in my life always.  But fostering tho it is hard to let go is wonderful.  I think my little pup she will be 2 on June 30 misses the fosters the most, as the ones I had would play with her, where my other 2 are older and more sedate.  But otherwise they all 3 accept the fosters just fine, have never had a    problem.  Knock on wood for the future!

Q: What is your favorite foster memory?
 I guess that would be flunking twice.

Q: What special things have you done in the past to prepare your foster dog for their new home or what things would you like to do?
 I don't know that it is special but I give all the love possible and show them that life can be wonderful.  Lots of wonderful and healthy food toys and treats.  In other words I spoil them to pieces.  One of the things I tell their forever home is that they need lots of love and stuffy toys.

Q: Any hints, suggestions or advice for new foster homes or volunteers who are considering fostering?
 Just do what’s in your heart that made you consider fostering and do not be afraid to love love and more love

Q: If the Foster Dog Genie of the Lamp granted you three rescue/foster wishes, what would they be?
 MY RESCUE WISH WOULD BE TO GET ALL OF THESE LITTLE BABIES FROM THOSE HORRID COMMERCIAL BREEDING FACILITIES.  I am glad we can save some but wouldn't it be great to be able to shut those horrid places down?????

Q: How would you finish this sentence? "I love fostering because...  "
 I love these little guys and it makes me feel that there is a purpose to my retirement, rather than watching TV yakking on the phone and shopping.  However Lisa and I do the last 2 together.

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