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Dog Mom Chronicles & Tails


How it all began...
I wish I could say my obsession for dogs began when I was a young girl. I’d like to think it must have just been a fire that sat dormant until adult hood because it feels as if it is the most natural side of me as a human being. It was sometime around the spring/summer of 2006 I decided to walk into the Bay Path Humane Society in Hopkinton, MA. My eyes locked eyes on 2 litter mate pups sharing a kennel. The connection was instant, and they both had this incredible lovable vib
Joanne Hicks
5 days ago2 min read


Fostering Saves Lives
I don’t even think it was a full week after I said goodbye to Luke that I flung myself into fostering. The house just felt so eerie, quiet and incomplete. I knew I would end up with another dog in my adult life, but I was in no way to make a commitment to one yet. So, my birth of foster dog mom began. To this day, everyone says… “how can you foster, it must be so hard?” I mean, yes some of them are hard to say goodbye to. I have no problem admitting I have indeed cried sayin
Joanne Hicks
4 days ago1 min read
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