Tomorrow I become a new foster mom! Before those who know me even start to raise an eyebrow, it is a foster mom to a cute little Maltese/Yorkie cross. His name, currently, is "Doggy". Two years ago around this time, I started to investigate adopting a dog. While the Youngest had been identified as having a dog and cat (and severe peanut allergy), I thought perhaps, he was now old enough to be able to manage having a low allergen/low shedding dog. But I didn't want to offer a home and then find out that the allergies would be too much. After filling out pages and pages of fostering forms for various organizations, I heard very little. One organization actually turned me down for fostering a particular dog because he was quite overweight and needed to be walked 3 or 4 times a day, and I was working full time then. As a result, I turned to an online ad service to search out dogs for private sale or adoption. Discussions with the Spouse res...