Ace Hardware owner Julie Spilde smiles with her most recent adoption, Bailey, a chocolate lab with genetic vision issues. (Photo by Zach Jensen)
The need for foster homes for surrendered dogs is climbing, but at least one local family is making an impact on those numbers. Julie and Steve Spilde, owners of Ace Hardware and the Ace Kitchen Place in Decorah, have fostered 57 dogs in the last seven years and recently adopted their most recent foster, Bailey, to be part of their family.
“We were asked to work for Heart Animal Rescue,” said Julie Spilde. “They were looking for fosters, and because we’d never done it before, we decided to give it a shot, and our first foster was Sydney, an adult Australian Shepherd. She was an amazing dog, and it went so well that we continued fostering. It’s added some fun happy chaos to our lives.”
Spilde went on to say, after she and her husband first began to foster dogs, they became more aware of the need, saying dogs are being surrendered at what she called an incredible rate.
Full article available in the June 19 Decorah Leader.
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