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It is day four in the twelve Strays of Christmas on Big one hundred,

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and we have another wonderful dog from a Forever Home rescue, Walker, a

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four year old male dog, and here to tell you more about him is

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Patty Stinson. Hey, Patty, Hey Lisa, how are you. I'm

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well, how you doing through the holiday season with all these adaptable animals.

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Well, we're, of course trying to get them all into homes and we

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are just absolutely stumped as to why our boy Walker does not have a forever

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home yet. He's been with us for a while. He's a big boy,

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you know, he's our big lug. He's a big hound dog.

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But he's just sweet and he's lovable, and he loves to play and he

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loves ear scratches. He's house trained. He's just a big, you know,

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lovable guy. And you know, we're thinking that the one thing that

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might be holding him back is because he is a little bit bigger. I

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think he's I think he's got seventy pounds right now. And you know that

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may be a little arch for some people, but you know, in the

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grand scheme of things, there's just more to love with Walker. Well,

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he's a coonhound mix. And the fact that you said he's house trained,

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all the work's been done. I mean, just to get a dog that's

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already house trained. Yes, yeah, absolutely, And he's house trained.

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He's leash trained. He will occasionally pull on the leash a little bit,

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and for that reason, we certainly recommend that small children do not walk him.

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But he has been working with our trainer and I actually checked with heurg

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just a day or two ago, and she said he's a great boy.

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She said he's very well behaved and he's you know, it's kind of a

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shock why he doesn't have a home yet. So we're hoping somebody's going to

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fall in love with Walker and take him home so he'll have they forever home

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before the holidays. Well, I'm just looking at him. He is adorable,

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those big floppy ears, those sweet soulful eyes. Taken bucket Walker Wbig

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dot Com Slash twelve strays. He is our stray of the day for day

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four And how can we find out more about a forever home? And I

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know you're all over social media, so definitely plug that because I'm seeing your

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adorable dogs every day. Well, our social media team is always hard at

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work, you know, putting our dogs out there. We've our website say

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foreverhome dot org, and on all the other social media platforms. We are

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a forever Home Instagram, and I think we do TikTok and Twitter. I

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don't know. I don't do all that. We have people who are far

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more, far more qualified than I am, and they do a fabulous job

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putting our dogs out there. So it's probably a good place to start with.

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Be our website, click on our kids and you can see all of

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our wonderful dogs who are waiting for their forever home. Patti. Let's say

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somebody is listening and they're not quite ready to adopt, but they want to

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help out it forever Home because they know the wonderful work you do. What

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are some ways that they can help? But Forever Home, our biggest need

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is always for foster homes. And fostering can be anything from a couple of

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days to a number of months and everything in between. So it's not a

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commitment that's gonna you know, drag on and on and on. If you're

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only available for temporary foster need here and there, you know, jump on

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board with us, get our emails, and you know, we'll see what you can do to help, and of course financial donations just like every other

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shelter out there, a Forever home dot org. Uh, you know,

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we have to keep the lights on too, just like everybody else. So

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if someone's unable to directly work with the animals, financial donations, adoption help,

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We've got a lot of ways that people can help, and if anyone

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wants to email us at info at a forever home dot org, we'll be

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happy to share all of our volunteer opportunities. Patty, thank you so much

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and I hope we can find the a forever home for Walker, this beautiful

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four year old male dog. Take a look wbig dot com slash twelve strays

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greatly, so thank you so much for helping us again this year