Zoe Sadino fondly remembers her first day with Norman, her family’s pet dog.
”When we brought Norman home, we brought him home to my parents, bedroom,” Sadino recalled. “There was a big mirror, and he was barking at himself because he thought that there was another dog.”
Norman is just one month old, but has big puppy paws, according to Saudino. She calls him energetic. Norman has black fur and light brown spots around his eyes. A funny habit that Norman has is that he always falls and trips on people. Sadino, a fifth grader, had another rottweiler but he passed.
“It feels nice to have a pet because I’m an only child, and it feels like I have someone to talk to.”
Ethan Kim, another fifth grader, and his family have fostered 26 dogs and two cats. Fostering a pet means taking care of an animal for a little while until it finds its forever home. Kim and his family gave their fosters food, water, love, and a cozy place to sleep, just as if the pets were their own, but instead of staying forever, the pet will go live with another family when they’re ready to adopt it.
“One day, my mom made a sweater for the cat named Finn,” Kim said. “He couldn’t walk and he kept falling because of the sweater.”
Kim said fostering is a good option for his family because he loves dogs and cats, but his mom doesn’t want to keep a pet in the home.
Finn was the second cat that the Kim family fostered from the Bergen County Animal Shelter. Finn came to the Kim family at eight-weeks old weighing 9 oumces. He’s a domestic short haired cat who now weighs a whopping more than a pound and a half. Kim said that Finn is playful with gray and black stripes all over his body.
Since the interviewing for this article, Fin foumd his forever home and was adopted.
