I originally saw our second dog, Rocky on petfinder.com. I knew as soon as I saw him that he was the dog for us. He looked a lot like Clover, but was smaller and male. We thought that all of these things made him very compatible with Clover.  Not to mention that he had the cutest little underbite that gives his face an adorable frowny quality that made me crazy about him.  Every so often, even though I know that we can’t get another dog anytime soon, I look at the site to coo over the puppies available.

I found out a long time ago that there is actually a website with kids posted for adoption in California. Some counties use it more than others, but generally, the kids are difficult to place kids with either large sibling groups or major disabilities.  These kids need as much exposure as possible to increase their chances of getting adopted.  They keep the level of exploitation of the kids at a minimum by making the descriptions pretty vague.

I find this site a little off-putting, but of course, I can’t resist looking, especially now that we are getting closer to the matching process.  With a picture or two and a paragraph, it actually doesn’t seem very realistic that we will actually end up with a kid that I see there, but it is all that I have to go on and so far I have seen a couple of potential matches for us.

By the way, the website is really NOT kidfinder.com. I entered that address in and a splash page from Korea came up.  They may be able to help you find a kid, but it isn’t actually clear what their site is for, but it is probably not for foster-to-adopt.

When we do enter the matching process, we will have access to our agencies books that are filled with pictures and profiles of the kids available from all over the state.  Apparently new profiles are released the 1st and 2nd week of the month and it is a big scene with all of the parents showing up and looking at the books together.