Our thanks to Tara Garland for sending us this update on her former foster boy, Stanley.  We love updates! And naturally, we love Stanley. (FYI: Many people have commented on Stanley’s ‘generous’ mouth.  Turns out, he is a type of Shar pei called a “meat mouth”.  He sees a vet regularly, can breathe just fine – and might just be …

  We have all been waiting for this day to arrive. After being the best Foster Mom ever, Tara Garland has a last installment on Stanley. A Forever Home for the Holidays- This year my family opted not to celebrate the holidays with gifts but rather focus on enjoying the company of loved ones.  Though there were no presents to …

 Some time has passed since the last Stanley update and as the weeks pass his fur gets a little longer and his bones a little less visible. While Stanley still has a good amount of weight to put on he has officially reach the 50 pound mark! Hard to imagine now that he ever could have weighed a mere …

             Stanley joined my family in the country this weekend to say good bye to Tyson, he was buried in one of the most beautiful garden’s of some very dear friend’s of our family.        Tyson loved being up in the country and some of my favorite photos of him were taken up …

Stanley has now gained 13 pounds putting him at an almost healthy 48 pounds!  This has been a very exciting and thrilling challenge for Stanley who dances around at the sight of food, walks backwards when I walk down the hall with his food (to be sure he keeps a close eye) and chows his food down by smushing his face as …

               It’s official, Stanley has pep in his step!  After a few weeks of a regular food routine, some special probiotics for his stomach and a quiet place to sleep Stanley is ready to explore the world.  So for the last 3 day we’ve been able to go for much longer walks then we were …

Here’s this weeks update from Tara! Stanley has gone from 35 pounds to 43 and is already looking like a new dog.  These much needed pounds have filled out his torso so his little rib cage is no longer visible and his hip bones no longer jut out of the top of his body. His fur is growing back slowly, …

Tara’s continuing tails of Stanley’s progress…:)       Another week has passed since Stanley has been in foster with me and he’s already made a great deal of progress. One really important aspect of fostering a dog is socialization.  Stanley was found as a stray so we don’t know anything about his history.  We have no way of knowing …

Due to the great response we had to this post on Saturday after our Yoga event, we decided we would make Stanley a weekly feature on my blog until he is adopted,  in Tara’s own words. Tara Garland is the Mananger of the Emergency Shelter, Foster Program and Special Placements for the Canadian SPCA here in Montreal. She sees a lot on …