These families opened their hearts and their homes to foster dogs during Covid-19 pandemic
Michael Berman and Teresa Berman sit with Alex, 17 and Elliot, 13 and foster dog Gale, a four-year-old coon hound mix from West Virginia, saved through the Canine Humane Network, at the Berman family home Wed., March 10, 2021. (Karl Merton/Baltimore Sun/TNS)
BALTIMORE In the dead of winter, and the throes of the pandemic, the Berman family chose to foster a passel of puppies and their mother, all desperate for shelter. Five dogs in all clambered into their Ellicott City home – a squirming, squealing brood from the Canine Humane Network, a nonprofit rescue organization in Highland.