IF forced to come up with an unintended positive outcome of the COVID 19 pandemic, it’s probably the number of dogs and cats that are being fostered and adopted by stir crazy sheltering in place humans.

In this episode, Karen and Jean chat (virtually) with Cara Sue Achterberg, an author and foster volunteer with Operation Paws for Homes (OPH), who literally wrote the book on fostering.  In Another Good Dog, Cara not only chronicles her family’s experiences with over 100 foster dogs, she invites us to join her mission to end the euthanasia of good dogs simply because there is not time, money, or resources to find a home for them.

Cara continues to foster for OPH.  The recording of this episode was pushed back a week because Cara and her family were receiving a new mother and her puppies, and we learn the very sad reason why Cara and her family have made fostering mothers and puppies their focus.  By the way, Mama Mia and the Broadway Babes will be available for adoption through OPH – www.ophrescue.org 

Cara’s next book, One Hundred Dogs and Counting, will be published by Pegasus Books in the summer of 2020.  You can read more about Cara’s work and follow her blog here http://www.carawrites.com/  She writes about more than dogs!

Jean, Cara and Kara share lots of PawsUP – deciding it’s too difficult a time for a PawsDOWN!  And you’re invite to take the PawsGo Facebook challenge – Please share and post a photo of your dog! Here’s a little twist on the current challenge circulating on Facebook. Join the challenge of posting a picture of some landscape from a place where you've been, where the main requirement is that you NOT appear in it, only your pup(s). Just a picture, no description. The goal is to see beautiful landscape photos and some lovable pups. Let’s do a little virtual traveling with our dog while we are home! Post on your Facebook page tag PawsGo so we can share it and tag others to take the challenge!