Homeward Bound

Homeward Bound is a program that the MSU-CVM students do to get shelter animals adopted in the northern part of the U.S.  The shelters do a PowerPoint of the animals they would like to see go and the students forward those PowerPoints to a few of the shelters in New York.  About a week later they send us an email with their picks and we foster those lucky puppies/dogs out the volunteers for 2 weeks.  They must be out of the shelter environment 2 weeks prior to the transport.  After the first week they come back and get their "halfway check-up".  They do fecal testing and blood work on them to make sure that they are healthy.  They send the foster family home with a couple of wormers for the animals and the next weekend they say "goodbye" to their foster family and "howdy" to a new one in New York! We get success stories from the adopters all the time wanting to know a little more about their background.  "How did they get to our shelter" and why someone would ever want to get rid of such an "innocent creature"?  We try to answer them as much as we can, but there is only so much you can tell someone about how a private citizen found him/her in a cardboard box on the side of the road.... Homeward Bound is a wonderful program for all those unwanted animals that we are overpopulated with here in the south.