I have followed many pit bull rescues for several years both local
and nationally. I started paying more attention to MPBR after some friends
joined the organization around 2019.
I have volunteered with other rescue organizations in the past.
There are several great ones in Minnesota, but we were drawn to MPBR because of
its dedication to the animals and its support of the fosters. I actually went
to a few adoption events and asked some fosters about their experience. I got
some really great feedback from the spy mission and felt comfortable joining an
organization that values the people that are involved.
About 6 months.
I helped to get another foster pup to the vet. I didn’t know it at
the time, but I was picking up a dog from another volunteer that had been able
to temp a dog for me a few weeks prior. It just goes to show that everyone is
working together to help each other and make it easier to foster/volunteer.
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| Gabby |
Yes. My entrance into pit bulls and rescues started with buying my
first house and knowing that I wanted a rescue pit bull. After a few weeks of
searching, my wife and I found Gabby. She was a 4-year-old pit bull that we
found on Petfinder and it was clearly love at first sight. We met her at an
adoption event and began the adoption process immediately because we thought
someone would arrive and adopt her before we could. We found out later she had spent
almost a year in rescue and had very few adoption prospects because she was an
adult pit bull who was afraid of strangers due to a rough start in life. She
made us realize how difficult life can be for rescue pitties and how amazing
they can be. We started fostering with the rescue that we adopted her from less
than year later. She is now 9 years old and living her best life. She is
nervous around new dogs so fostering allows us to keep her social and allow her
to have slow introductions to all her new doggy friends.
Gabby would probably describe me as being the perfect person to
binge watch TV shows with since I get addicted to new shows quickly and try to
watch as many episodes as fast as possible. I do take her on several walks, but
I’m sure that she would complain that she doesn’t go on enough of them. She is
always excited to go on walks and will hop up and run to the door as soon as
she hears her leash jingle.
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| Go Vikings! |
WWhere's your favorite dog-friendly place to bring your dog?
We love to camp and go for walks. Whitewater State Park and
Temperance State Park are two of our favorites.
If I can’t find any dogs to hang out with then I am typically
hiking, camping, fishing, seeing live sports, watching an entire season of a tv show or
spending time with my nieces and nephews.
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| Gabby & Tootsie |
I have a favorite memory with every foster dog that I have
interacted with since I started volunteering. All these dogs are so amazing and
just need someone to advocate for them and show them love. One that sticks
because of my history with my own dog was when I temp-fostered Tootsie for a
week. She was pretty nervous, but really seemed to find comfort in having our
dog around. They became lazy couch snoozers together. I remember looking over
and noticing that Tootsie had fallen asleep with her head on Gabby’s stomach.
It was such a pure moment of comfort between two dogs that had probably been
through a lot finally feeling safe and loved.
Remember that loving the dogs is the easy part. The difficult part is all the behind the scenes work and coordination that goes on. It is amazing how great everyone has been to work with and how organized everything has been. Please be kind to the administrative staff and help out your fellow fosters if you can. It really goes a long way towards making us new people feel the community support that is at work at MPBR.
Do you want to give a shout out to anyone in the MPBR family?
Shout out to Laura for answering all my emails and being so
amazing. Shout out to Wendy and Katie for helping us get involved with MPBR.
Interested in volunteering? Check out some info here.
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