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Stray Staffie With A Fabulous Smile Finds Her Forever Home

March 1, 2020March 1, 2020 NewsEditor700-page, adopted, adoption, Dog, fovever, Home, shelter, Staffie, staffordshire, Staffordshire bull terrier, stray

Probably most of us have at least one stereotype related to a dog breed in our minds. Huskies are convinced barking is for amateurs and just howl instead, chihuahuas can’t shut up and seem like they want to fight anything that moves but yet they can’t stop trembling, Staffordshires not only look like they want to fight anything but actually do – you name it. Due to this last trait, most shelters know they’ll have real trouble trying to rehome a Staffie when one comes along but in this case,…

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She was adopted at 17. Then, a stranger who’d ‘been where she is’ offered to help pay for college.

February 15, 2020February 15, 2020 NewsEditoradoption, foster, foster care, Kindness

As a child in the foster system, Ashley Lacasse had already attended 19 different schools by the time she was 17. But now she has a stable home and the opportunity to attend college, thanks to her two adoptive moms and the generosity of a perfect stranger. “There’s sort of this unspoken rule with older kids that are in the system,” Ashley told her new moms, “and once you hit about 10 years old, nobody wants you anymore and you will never find a family.” That sense of hopelessness is…

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Touching PSA Shows The True Story Of A Teenage Boy Finally Being Adopted And Accepted Into A New Family

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 NewsEditor700-page, Ad Council, adoption, foster care, psa, teenagers

The sad reality is that most people are more keen on adopting babies, toddlers, and other young children. This preference makes it much harder for teens in foster care to find a loving family. According to the Administration for Children and Families (ACF): “Teenagers between the ages of 15 to 17 years old wait, on average, twice as long for an adoptive home, compared to children who are 14 years of age and younger. Currently, about one in five children waiting to be adopted are teenagers.” National Foster Youth Institute…

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Special Needs Dog Returned 4 Times Is Finally Adopted By Someone Who Totally Gets Him

February 14, 2020February 14, 2020 NewsEditor#Animals, 700-page, adoption, Bandit, Dog, Dogs, gwinnett jail dogs, jail dog, needs, shelter, special

It’s pretty much the same with all shelter dogs. All they want is a sweet loving forever home. But not every one of them is lucky enough to nail that from the first go. But sometimes even doggos have to face some serious hardship before they find a real silver lining in their lives. That was exactly the case for Bandit who was taken into the Gwinnett Jail Dogs Program as a stray but ran into some serious health problems that left him paralyzed below the waist. Luckily for him,…