I have a similar picture of my dog from when she was a puppy. She's probably catlike enough to post on here.
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My perfect darling Honey Pie, at 6 weeks old and the beginning of what would be my biggest foster fail
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Are you sure that's not a cat in a dog costume?
Dog running cat firmware
I suspect that's what all Shibas are, actually.
That's very obviously a cat in a cat-pretending-to-be-a-dog costume.
the beginning of my foster fail
vs her now
shes gonna be a giant when she's fully grown lol (i regret nothing)
I celebrate this failure with you. She is beautiful!
My wife and I took in five kittens for a weekend. I insisted we keep one as my Dad was keeping another.
My wife insists this is a foster fail, but I maintain it was four foster successes!
Fluffy kitten tax. This is Mary Jane, supposed to be Peter Parker but my vet tech wife failed to correctly determine gender that weekend:
Well that would melt your heart wouldn’t it😍
Why is it a fail?
It’s a bit tongue in cheek, but generally the idea of fostering is that it’s temporary. In my situation, my wife works for a local cat rescue and our family is one of many in the area that will temporarily foster cats who for one reason or another can’t be in the adoption lounge with the other cats. Usually during this time they are still actively looking for adopters, and the foster family are temporary. A foster who adopts a cat is great, but they may also be less willing to foster other cats after adopting one or more fosters, hence it’s a success that is also kind of a failure in that it diminishes the network of fosters, or can do.
Honey Pie came with her two litter mates because they were all way too young to be adopted initially (we now think they were as young as 5 weeks when they came to us), and because two of them had health issues. Honey has two hind legs that don’t work as you’d expect, and her brother Rocky has a life-shortening heart defect. Their Sister Penny has no health issues, but we ended up keeping all 3.
I think it’s because they were so little. They still act like our babies more than any of our other cats.
Here is all 3 of them when we first got them.
How can anyone have access to these 3 furballs and not keep them for life?
Foster fail usually means taking in an animal temporarily (instead of keeping them at a kennel) while they wait to be adopted, but ending up keeping them permanently due to falling in love with said animal.
The shoe as a pillow 🥹
Comfort shoes.