I’m used to the goodbye tears that come with sending my fosters up to Massachusetts to find their forever. Sitting with my heart broken crying in a parking lot. It’s always hard, but knowing that they get the best lives just ahead makes it worth it- so I leave a little piece of my heart with them and send them on their way.

In my rescue career of 7 years and over 100 dogs and puppies, I’ve never lost a single pup. We have had many close calls, even had a puppy that a vet that told me “he isn’t going to make the night”. He made it. They have all made it and got their forever, until today.

Early this morning our weakest bottle baby passed over the rainbow bridge. I knew they were weak, they all were- but he was especially weak. I knew the odds weren’t in our favor. But I still had so much hope that I could sit in a parking lot and cry after dropping off 7 babies to make their trip up to Massachusetts to find their forever.
I’m so sorry Erlenmeyer (Erl for short). I did everything I could to save you and I wanted so bad for you to have your forever. But you passed away having been loved and fought for, your body was just too weak.

I’ll be having him cremated and brought home so that he can still have his forever that I promised. It just looks different than I wanted it to.

Thank you to Safe With Us Animal Rescue for supporting me and letting me give him and his surviving 6 siblings a chance at life that they wouldn’t have had otherwise.

Fly high sweet Erl, you were so loved and I’m so sorry that I couldn’t save you