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Article: Pooches find love in foster homes; Homeward Bound places dogs with temporary families until permanent adoptions are made.(Capital Region)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- March 14, 2007
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Byline: SARAH WORDEN - Special to the Times Union
COLONIE - Every year, more than a thousand dogs are surrendered to shelters around the Capital Region.
But they don't always go straight to their future owners.
Under Homeward Bound, a volunteer not-for-profit dog rescue organization, dogs are placed with foster "parents" until they're ultimately adopted.
"I want to make sure these dogs go to good homes," said volunteer Joe McCormick, 32, of Clifton Park, who aids the dogs with his wife, Jen. They own two of their own.
"It's wonderful to see these dogs go out."
For almost three months, Giovanni, a year-and-a-half-old ...