Sally, you might be happy to hear that the adoption isn't going through! I just got the news today, and I've had so much bad news today I haven't decided what I think about it. It does seem like Ria might be a foster fail, but I'll decide when everything else calms down. Ria had her visit on Monday since it was a holiday here, sandwiched in between visits to police stations about a cat abuse case (it's in Malay; they apparently translated from my Instagram posts and wrote the story). It was my first time getting involved with something like that; usually other people go out and do the rescuing and I just foster.

But anyway, the visit went fairly well although Ria didn't completely warm up to Della and barked at her kittens briefly. None of Della's cats were happy to see Ria, which is to be expected from cats who haven't met a dog before. Ria was uncertain about the shiny tile floor which is a bit more slippery than mine. She made herself at home on the couch and did let Della pet her but insisted on staying close to me and kept looking at me to make sure everything would be okay. Della asked if Ria was so bonded to me she wouldn't be able to accept anyone else. I was wondering that myself. The way we left things was that we'd do a couple more visits and then Ria could try staying there for the weekend at the end of the month since I'm planning a short trip (don't know what I'm going to do about boarding now since the only other time I left her was last October and she ran away). So that was all good, at least some progress, although I did somehow have a feeling it wouldn't work out. Ria is just my baby.

I thought things were settled, police reports done, rescued kittens at the vet not showing symptoms of parvo after 10 days although they did test positive, and more visits planned for Ria. But no, the guy I reported for cat abuse has my address and personal information (long story), and this morning the vet told me one kitten suddenly passed away from parvo and another has symptoms. I'm worrying about what will happen to all my pets if someone comes after me, so I thought it was good that at least Ria would have a place to go. And then I got the message that Della has decided she's not ready to adopt after all.

Hopefully everything will be fine. Ria is oblivious to it all; she's happy as long as she's home with me. 

Ria survived boarding with no escape attempts! It was nice to have a short vacation although racing 50km over three mountain peaks wasn't exactly restful The first update I got on Ria was a sad video of her lying by the door. They said they didn't put her in the room with my other dogs because they wanted everyone to settle down first. Then no more updates until Sunday when they said they had put her in with the other dogs and she was a little better. When I got there Sunday, they said she hadn't eaten at all But she was so overjoyed to see me! She devoured her dinner as soon as we got home and never stopped smiling and wagging her tail. I hope she knows I'll always come back for her.