A Soft Place to Rest Their Head

Centennial students brought in their own used blankets, pillows and towels and donated them to the Wet Nose Rescue organization to give foster dogs a warm bed.

She calls them her failures. When Kim Leslie received each of her four dogs, it was supposed to be temporary situations. When it came time to find them a permanent home, however, she just could not do it. Here most recent keeper, Bentley, was four months old when he was found in a commercial dumpster on Frankford Avenue. "I just didn't want to give them up," said the Feasterville resident. Such is the danger of being a foster owner for shelter dog, one that Leslie says requires a certain mindset to overcome, but nobody's perfect. As founder of the Wet Nose Rescue, she and her team of approximately 25 foster families have helped hundreds of abandoned or abused dogs find homes over the past five years. It's their job to feed them and keep …

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