Hattie gets a check-up

So here's Hattie, our latest foster dog. For a couple of years now we've been helping out with an animal welfare agency that uses a network of volunteers to foster dogs until they can be placed in "forever" homes. "Happy Tails, Happy Homes" has a no-kill policy and takes dogs in from owners who relinquishing them for a variety of reasons and from overcrowded animal shelters. Hattie, along with over a dozen other dogs, came from a Humane Society shelter in the eastern part of the state in which I live. This shelter gets lots of dogs and has a very high kill rate due to the fact that they just can't find homes for all of them. They practice a kind of triage when they take dogs in, favoring those who are most likely to be quickly adopted due to their breed or age. Cute little lab puppies are always popular; an aging pit-bull mix with health or behavioral issues, not so much. Hattie, being an older dog of no discernible pure breed, would most likely have been put down if volunteers had not made the long trip to rescue her and the other animals they brought back with her. She got a clean bill of helath at the vet, got her shots up-to-date, and her nails trimmed. Soon her photo and a profile will be posted on the web site Petfinder and hopefully someone will give her the loving home she deserves.