{"id":3442,"date":"2023-09-05T09:56:34","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/?p=3442"},"modified":"2023-09-05T09:56:36","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T09:56:36","slug":"this-93-year-old-has-the-most-heartwarming-hobby-crafting-dog-beds-so-shelter-pups-have-a-cozy-place-to-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/?p=3442","title":{"rendered":"This 93-year-old has the most heartwarming hobby: crafting dog beds so shelter pups have a cozy place to sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"78954ae5fa42b68c1393fe3da4998882\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1576712\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Shelter animals need all the love they can get, and it\u2019s always inspiring to see the creative and unique ways people use their talents to help these animals.<\/p>\n<p>Like one senior woman, who spends her spare time crafting cozy dog beds for animal shelters.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3444\" src=\"http:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/dofi-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/dofi-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/dofi-768x579.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/dofi.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joan Potters is a 93-year-old woman from San Antonio. Like many seniors, she\u2019s taken up crafts as a hobby, but her creations go a long way in giving homeless dogs a nice place to lay their head.<\/p>\n<p>According to KSAT, Joan has transformed her room into a sewing workshop where, using fabric left over from the Greater San Antonio Quilting Guild, she\u2019s hard at work making dog beds which she donates to local shelters, such as the San Antonio Humane Society and the Paul Jolly Center.<\/p>\n<p>Not every shelter can afford nice beds for all their animals, and most kennels aren\u2019t very well-furnished, so Joan\u2019s donations ensure that dogs have a cozy place to curl up while they wait for their forever home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just am happy to do it for them and to know that some dog is going to be comfortable,\u201d Joan told KSAT. \u201cIt makes me feel so good to know that they\u2019re not going to be laying on cement or a hard floor or in the winter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the donated fabric scraps, Joan gets help with some of the sewing and the deliveries from missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ. She donates around 30-40 dog beds a month.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard work at her age, and Joan, a lifelong dog owner herself, takes extra care to make sure each dog bed is safe and just right. For her, it\u2019s worth it to know that these sweet dogs will have a bed of their own.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know their bones ache, too. You know they have feelings. They can\u2019t talk to us in our language, but look at their eyes and the expression on their face. They all have expressions and I just love them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CTpmgW-YmnE?si=2i7QiZKN0xkRjftV\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What a sweet thing to do for these sweet dogs! They will have their own cozy beds thanks to Joan\u2019s kind heart &#x2764;&#xfe0f;<\/p>\n<p>Please share this heartwarming story!<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelter animals need all the love they can get, and it\u2019s always inspiring to see the creative and unique ways people use their talents to help these&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lajme"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.findnews5.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}