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How to maximize the joys – and minimize the perils – of fostering a needy dog or puppy.

By Nancy Kerns

Had some prescient person warned me that I would spend nearly $1,000 on vet bills; miss out on a lot of sleep; experience many worried and tearful moments (and a certain amount of marital strife); and lose untold hours on observing, training, shopping for, and cleaning up after that puppy I was considering taking home as a foster; would I still have done it?

Ah well, it’s a moot point. I did bring a puppy home from my

This is the puppy that WDJ Editor Nancy Kerns brought home from a shelter to foster, intending to spend a week or so socializing him . . . The project turned into a month of nursing as he developed kennel cough, then pneumonia.

local shelter, with the intention of spending a week or so socializing him to the world of humans (which he seemed to have little experience with), and then sending him back to…

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