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| Diego, the Little Brown Dog, and kittens! |
Lisa and Mark are animal people, and luckily for Hopalong, they're animal fosters! And they've reached the point where animals start coming to them, even on their days off- recently Mark was riding his bicycle many many miles away and found itty bitty kittens on the side of the road. Guess where those ended up? At last count, they'd fostered over twenty animals, including little guy, Enzo, for months and months while his leg healed. They've even got their son Gavin involved- current foster Diego is absolutely smitten with him!
We have a lot to learn from Mark, Lisa and Gavin: they're in it for the long haul and for the dirty work of fostering. Sometimes their animals have casts, sometimes the animals have nasty rashes that require dipping in stinky sulfur baths, and, as with this last batch of kittens, they're not always quite eating on their own. This work is exceptionally rewarding: casts come off, rashes go away and kittens start eating, but it's hard! Thanks to Lisa and Mark for bringing out the best in Hopalong animals!
