Yesterday afternoon, Amanda Arms posted this message on her Facebook wall:

I didn’t know Amanda at the time, nor were we Facebook friends…but my wedding photographer was.

Around noon, Jennie (who knows I couldn’t turn down a loving pit bull) sent me an email mentioning what she saw on Facebook. I asked her to have Amanda contact me.

Around 8pm last night, Michael and I became foster parents. — Upon meeting this very sweet dog, Michael and I couldn’t help but take him in and work at finding an adoptive family for him from the warmth of our home. We gave him a bath too : )

By 3pm this afternoon, “Turbo” had a new adoptive family (I even had backup adoption offers based on my own Facebook post. I think Amanda did too).

So within just 2 days, Turbo went from being a lonely stray, to living in Amanda’s garage, to living in my spare bedroom, to living with his new family — all because of one Facebook post.

This whole situation made me feel awesome. I felt good that I was able to help save a stray from the pound (and possibly euthanasia). I felt happy that social media once again proved its worth in a charitable situation. And I feel empowered to make this scenario happen again.

Michael and I are hoping to foster another pit soon…and hopefully repeat what happened today. We even tossed around the idea of one day starting our own pit bull rescue…one day.

But the real reason I’m writing this post is because I hope this story inspires other people to send a few tweets or Facebook posts next time a cold stray shows up on their door!