Lessons from a Foster Dog

It’s been an “interesting” two weeks! When we volunteered to foster a dog from the Pima Animal Care Center here in Tucson, we imagined it would be our “dog fix,” since our beloved Catahoula had died in 2021.

Nope. Nothing like that. Worse and far better.

Clara, a German Shepherd dog mix, arrived at the Pima Animal Care Center in April, sick, dehydrated, anorexic and a nervous wreck. She had parvovirus, a deadly...