I find searching for another daughter to love easier than finding our next family pet.
After spending countless hours on Petfinder these last couple of months, I also couldn?t help but wonder about the kids on Adopt US Kids (I have been frequenting this site approximately every 4 months since before Ainsley was born ? she will be six in November).
I have always said that I wanted three kids. Greg said one. However, when I was pregnant with Ainsley, Greg and I said that we would have one and save one. Well, we have two amazing girls and this mama wants to save them all!
Greg and I have agreed to table our adoption discussion until our girls are a bit older. Nevertheless, when the time comes to revisit adoption, I would like to adopt a girl around the same age as my girls (I am flexible with the age as there are so many teens that reach my heart when I conduct my 7-year-old to 21-year-old adoption search).
Nevertheless, during these last couple of months when having the many dog discussions on my Facebook page, I became filled with hope. Hope that those two dozen kids 
on my?I-want-to-bring-you-home-and-love-you list have found their forever home. I have been filled with that hope because of hearing so many of you strongly voice your opinions on how I should absolutely adopt a dog rather than buy one from a breeder because there are too many dogs caged in shelters that need homes and buying a dog from a breeder is just wrong and inhumane.?I believe that there are pros and cons to both sides to this argument, just like there are to every argument/issue excluding the facts that we are born, one day we will die, and we need to breathe to survive.
I admit that I am well aware of the countless dogs waiting for homes while sadly caged in shelters; however, I am also aware that there are well over 500,000 kids in our foster care system here in the US, and out of those 500,000+ kids, 18,273 are listed on Adopt US Kids.
The children listed on?Adopt US Kids?are from our neighborhood, our community, our state, and our country. If you are thinking about expanding your family, please scroll through the many children waiting for a forever home.
Greg is not ready to adopt our third daughter just yet, but he has agreed that we can welcome a family pet into our home (he actually convinced me to get a pet back in May ? my heart still aches for our cat Putty whom passed away on 22 January 2006).
Thus, these last couple of months, I have been searching Petfinder, but unfortunately, my search is narrow because our girls want a small girl dog and our sitter is allergic to most breeds and is severely allergic to cats, so in addition to searching for a rescue dog, I also searched for a breeder.
Well, I found a breeder, and a month and a half after I contacted our chosen breeder, our potential puppy has been born, but I keep searching Petfinder. However, when I get excited while thinking that I found our rescue dog, that excitement changes to disappointment when I read the last line of that dog?s description: ?We do not adopt to families with children under the age of 8 years.? The shelters that follow this rule assert that this requirement is to protect the dog. If they met my girls, they would make an exception to this rule. However, they refuse to correspond with me because my girls don?t meet their age requirement.
Greg believes that we will find the perfect match. He?s right. We always do. I just wish finding a dog that would easily fit into our family was as easy as finding a child that would easily fit into our family and into our loving home.
If you have room in heart and in your home, please consider adoption for loving dogs and especially for loving children.
All the girls that appear in this post are up for adoption at?Adopt US Kids, and the two dogs are up for adoption at?Petfinder.
Much Love, Priscilla
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