09/01/2026
🌧️ WHEN IT RAINS, IT POURS. CRICKET NEEDS A FOSTER — AGAIN. 🌧️
Remember Cricket?
The sweet girl who was living in the woods with people experiencing homelessness, because they were the only people who stepped up to care for her?
We posted her. Someone saw her story and committed to fostering her. Based on that commitment, we agreed to bring Cricket into our rescue and got her off the street.
And now that foster has “changed their mind.”
People need to understand the position this puts rescues in. When you tell us you will foster a dog, we make decisions based on your word. Cricket was brought into our care because we were told she had a committed foster home. Had we known that commitment wouldn’t be honored, we could not have agreed to take her.
So now what are we supposed to do?
Put her back in the woods?
We have no open kennel space at the rescue. We cannot manufacture another kennel. We cannot manufacture another foster home.
And unfortunately, Cricket isn’t the only dog this has happened to. Multiple fosters have backed out of their commitments over the last couple of months, filling every bit of backup space we normally try desperately to keep available for situations exactly like this.
This is why we say fostering is a commitment. When a rescue agrees to save a dog based on your promise to foster, changing your mind doesn’t make the dog disappear. It simply leaves the rescue scrambling to figure out where that dog is supposed to go.
And right now, that dog is Cricket.
🚨 CRICKET URGENTLY NEEDS A NEW FOSTER IN HOUSTON. 🚨
She is approximately 40 lbs, incredibly sweet, and has already survived more than enough.
Please, if you can foster Cricket, message Sunnyside Street Dogs ASAP.
And if you can’t foster, SHARE HER. Cricket finally made it out of those woods. We refuse to let that be where her story ends.