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Bozworth came to us as a Christmas surprise from a local shelter.
He needed a home for the holidays and we had an opening for a
foster dog. He started out as an unruly foster who was supposed to
leave in January, but quickly, he literally tackled his way into my
husband's heart and everyone else followed. He was young,
unmannerly and the class clown. I had absolutely no intention of
keeping him. Our goal was to make him more managable and
easier for a family to adopt. Little did we know we would be that
family. In a week, Bozi was a thousand times better, in two weeks,
foster dad was already filling out the paperwork to keep him. By the
third week, the deal was sealed when our 14 year old female black
lab quietly went to join her two sisters who had already crossed
Rainbow Bridge. Dakota's legacy was to say "Boz needs you to let
him stay and you need him because I must go". Bozi is a joy, not a
day goes by when he doesn't make us laugh, make us realize that
life is short and your only young once. Too soon, he will be the
incredibly well behaved dog his predecessors were (he is already
headed in that direction) and we know too soon we will be saying
"remember when." But for now we laugh as he prances through the
house head held high with the latest stolen toilet paper roll or glove
or pillow or towel. He is our foster failure and our adoption success,
and we could not love him more or feel more lucky that he chose to
love us.
He needed a home for the holidays and we had an opening for a
foster dog. He started out as an unruly foster who was supposed to
leave in January, but quickly, he literally tackled his way into my
husband's heart and everyone else followed. He was young,
unmannerly and the class clown. I had absolutely no intention of
keeping him. Our goal was to make him more managable and
easier for a family to adopt. Little did we know we would be that
family. In a week, Bozi was a thousand times better, in two weeks,
foster dad was already filling out the paperwork to keep him. By the
third week, the deal was sealed when our 14 year old female black
lab quietly went to join her two sisters who had already crossed
Rainbow Bridge. Dakota's legacy was to say "Boz needs you to let
him stay and you need him because I must go". Bozi is a joy, not a
day goes by when he doesn't make us laugh, make us realize that
life is short and your only young once. Too soon, he will be the
incredibly well behaved dog his predecessors were (he is already
headed in that direction) and we know too soon we will be saying
"remember when." But for now we laugh as he prances through the
house head held high with the latest stolen toilet paper roll or glove
or pillow or towel. He is our foster failure and our adoption success,
and we could not love him more or feel more lucky that he chose to
love us.
| Bozworth |
