Frederic Fiddle. Where do I even begin? I was supposed to be taking a break from fostering since I wanted to slow down a bit, but this sweet boy found himself at the SPCA and someone reached out to DREAM about him. Of course, he was in my county so they asked if I could pick him up and care for him for a few days until a new foster was found. Well that didn’t happen at all. We were in love with this poor unhealthy, extremely underweight boy we started calling Fabulous Frederic Fiddle.
We found out he had a family that was interested in adopting him so we kept in touch with them every week about how well he was getting, and they were getting excited it was getting closer to the time to adopt Frederic. After several months of love and care he was ready for his forever family, but unfortunately there was a family emergency and they no longer could adopt him. Months and months went on, and at the day before him being with us for 8 months another family was interested in adopting him. I made my telephone interview and it was by far the worst. I hung up and was not only sad but mad for this little guy. He deserved a forever family of his own. He was so special, sweet, the perfect boy if there could ever be just one. That evening Steven came home from work and as I was telling him about the phone interview, he picked Frederic up and headed off to the office.
I asked him what he was doing and he said he and Frederic had to have a talk. All I heard him say was "Do you like it here? Is this your home?". I cried and cried and right away got in touch with DREAM's adoption coordinator and let her know we would be adopting Frederic. We waited until the next day when he was officially with us 8 months. As the years went on, one after another, and him turning a little frostier day by day he still gave us so many special memories and always had the greatest smiles ever. Unfortunately dementia took our sweet loving boy and stole his personality away from him but we will always remember him as Fabulous Frederic Fiddle.
