Foster Fail - Almost

A few weeks back a parent at the kids school had posted about a rescue dog coming from Crete.  We have been discussing getting a dog and knew we would get a rescue but we had planned to wait until after our 6 weeks in Seattle and after our move to our new house before getting a dog.  But there was something about this dog that was posted that pulled at my heart.  And I'm not even a dog person.
His name was Siggi and I reached out to the woman who was trying to find him a home.  I explained our situation and even though we really wanted him thought that maybe we should wait.  We had a few exchanges and agreed together that we should wait.

Several weeks past and I had forgotten all about Siggi.  The day after Josie was diagnosed with Mono the rescue woman writes and says she has a bit of an emergency and was there any way we could take Siggi for a night.  36 hours to be exact.  Since we were homebound with a sicky and wouldn't be able to do much it was a perfect time to take a dog for a day.

Josie showed us how sick she really is as she wasn't even really able to enjoy Siggi.  Dogs are her FAVORITE!!  Benjamin was a doting pet owner.  He fed Siggi, he walked Siggi, he snuggled Siggi, he curled up and read his books next to Siggi.  It was super sweet. 
It was super sweet up until his forever family came to pick him up. Benjamin and I both got a little teary saying good bye.  What a COOL, cool dog.  I don't want to think we made a mistake by not taking him when we had the chance but I have to say I did feel that way. 

Our forever dog will be just as cool or cooler when it is our time.  I have to believe that.  We definitely would have been a foster fail (what they call people who set out to foster a dog and then end up adopting them) if he didn't have a family lined up to take him and love him. 

See you around town, Sweet Siggi.