Tomorrow we will pick up our Transportation Security Administration foster puppy! We're very excited about bringing our puppy home. Right now, we know very little about it other than it will be a lab and about 10 weeks old. Our family will learn much more tomorrow at the orientation!But how did we get to this point? In the middle of May, 2009, the local newspaper and TV stations began running stories about the Transportation Security Administration's Canine Breeding and Development Center housed at Lackland Air Force Base. The TSA needed families to foster puppies who had been bred to enter their National Explosives Detection Canine Team Program when they reached about 1 year of age. For more information on the TSA Puppy Program, visit their website:
After reviewing the info on their website, we learned we met the initial criteria to become a foster family. We sat down and discussed what we would rather do: go on a long vacation or commit to the challenges of raising a foster puppy for a year. By now you've figured out what our decision was!
Not long after turning in our application, we were contacted by Diana Thomas, a program specialist. She arranged to come out from San Antonio for a home visit with us at the end of May. We all enjoyed our home visit and learned so much more about the TSA puppy program. A few anxious days later, we received the good news that we had been chosen to become a foster family! What a great way for our family to give back to our community and country! But what challenges lie ahead????
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