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Throughout my nearly four years of volunteering with Suncoast Animal League, I have felt a wide range of experiences and emotions towards the non-profit. My first day was absolutely terrifying. I arrived at the shelter with the idea that it was the typical shelter shown on television, a considerable sized building with huge kennels and white walls. Instead, before me stood a house, about the size of my own, with a few cars parked outside. Upon entering it became even more apparent that the building was once inhabited by a typical family; the kitchen was off to the side and both the medical room and back quarantine rooms felt like modified bedrooms. Nevertheless, the workers were friendly and I began my training. Without delay, a kind older woman greeted me and guided me around the shelter. It felt like a bustling bee hive between all the dogs and people moving from place to place. Eventually, we reached the cat room where another one of my preconceived notions would be ripped away. For some peculiar reason, my timid mind assumed that most of the cats living at the shelter would be feral. I …show more content…
As noted prior, I was quite the shy and unsure person before volunteering. This more than likely only amplified my fear and previously held ideas. However, over time that shifted and I became more confident. For instance, the fact that things shift and get lost on a weekly bases allowed me to accept that I can be wrong at times. In the beginning it frustrated me to no end that I could not find certain things that I once knew the location to, but when at such a tiny shelter things get shuffled. This newfound confidence also fostered my love of teaching. Currently, I am the one to give an orientation to any new cat room volunteers that come in while I am there. Recently, this gave me the opportunity to train a woman who was blind to do some of the tasks, which was a wonderful
LeMann, Nicholas. “A Call for Help: What the Kitty Genevose Story Really Means.” The New Yorker (2014): Pages. 05/06/2014
Four journalists named Helen Jones, Larry Andrews, Marcia Glaser, and Fred Myers thought it would be a good idea to create a nonprofit organization to help animals that have are treated cruelly by either abuse or when they are left alone. The Humane Society has been helping animals since November 24, 1954(2). Their mission since the beginning has been celebrating animals and confronting cruelty. There are a great number of things that the Humane Society has been doing for the animals, like saving them from people who want to harm them. The list of animals that the Humane Society helps is very long, because they don’t just help the household pets that you might have thought. The conditions of the Humane Society change due to the types of animals
The Truth About No-Kill Animal Shelters. Examiner. The. N.p., 13 June 2012. Web. The Web.
While I was doing my preceptorship, it was like nothing I’ve ever witnessed before. The lead Veterinary technician, Nicole gave me a wonderful tour of the building. Right before the tour she said that every day at 9:45am they have a little huddle with each department. During this huddle, each department shares what they have going on today, who is going to have a walkie talkie on them today, and who is going to be where. On the tour she explained to me how many different programs they do with all the animals. Also they don’t just work with dogs and cats. They have dogs, cats, pocket pets, and also birds. Going to the Animal Humane Society in Golden Valley was an awesome experience. First of all this place was huge. They have several different boarding rooms for all kinds of different animals.
Countless lives locked away in cages and forgotten about have overwhelmed our society, it has left blood stains on our history as a species and if history has taught us anything, it’s that we have a choice to change our ways of adjusting to situations. A war which was fought in pursuit of ending such criminal means, yet we as human beings do little to nothing to end the horrific crimes of animal deaths in shelters. It is no secret that this world has become infused with problems that have extended from one side of the globe to the other. Amongst these problems lies a terrible truth: nearly every year, sums of almost eight million cats and dogs have been placed in shelters around the world. Out of these vast numbers, half will be euthanized; that equals to one animal being put down every 8 seconds. Animals that are not adopted are kept in shelters until they find a home. Most of these shelters do not have enough space or resources to care for the animal. Only 15% of dogs and 2% of cats that enter animal shelters are reunited with their owners. The majority of pets are obtained from acquaintances and family members. Twenty-six percent of dogs are purchased from breeders, 20 to 30 percent of cats and dogs are adopted from shelters and rescues, and 2 to 10 percent are purchased from pet shops. In addition, only 56% of dogs and 71% of cats that enter animal shelters are euthanized. The 10% of the animals received by shelters have been spayed or neutered, while 78 percent of dogs and 88 percent of cats are not spayed or neutered, in 2009 Statistics from animal shelters in 55 counties in WV (West Virginia) shows that nearly 54% of all animals entering shelters are euthanized, The euthanasia rates ranged from the lowest at 5% to the highe...
With the ultimate goal of an animal shelter is to find loving homes for animals in need of adoption or help lost animals reunite with their owners, happy endings are not always the case for animals. Of the 7.6 million companion pets who enter
There is a Pedigree dog commercial I see on television which catches my eye and my heart. It tells us to not pity a shelter animal. When I decided to become a Veterinary Technician, I anticipated working in a veterinarian office. Approximately one year ago, I began volunteering for the Denver Dumb Friends League at the Buddy Center in Castle Rock. This experience has led me to consider working in a shelter instead of a vet office. A shelter is not necessarily the easiest place to work, and I have certain criteria I will look for in a career. I enjoy a variety of responsibilities as opposed to doing the same thing every day. In addition to working with animals, I enjoy interacting with people, especially kids. One of the main reasons I want to be a vet tech is to care for animals which are sick or in need. There are tremendous pros and cons to working in a shelter. In the following paragraphs, I will evaluate whether a shelter career is right for me based on the following criteria: the changing atmosphere, educational opportunities and my compassion toward animals.
As you know, the Houston SPCA is one of largest animal cruelty and rescue organizations in the country with the ability to care for the broadest range of animal species, types of abuse and injury, and magnitude of large-scale, multiple-animal cases. We are also the only shelter in the area that is equipped and knowledgeable about the care of large animals (especially horses) and exotic animals. Just last week, we rescued 88 miniature horses and ponies, one donkey and two cows from a property near Baytown. Many were suffering from malnutrition,
According to the article at www.animal-rights-action.com, the animals at the shelter are only there because of other humans. For example, when you see an aggressive dog, you might think that the dog is aggressive because that is it’s nature - however that is completely untrue. The only reason that the dog is aggressive is because that’s the way humans made it. The pet is always afraid of you, and it’s natural instinct to lash out if that’s the same thing that happened in the past. Because of humans, dogs are hostile and unsafe. Because of this, they most likely won’t be adopted in the shelter.
Just over half are taken to shelters, left with mental scars of being abused made forever homes seem hopeless. While others are left, abandoned on without homes, and starved. Without the ASPCA not a single animal would have a chance, searching near and far, high and low, light and dark, the ASPCA is committed. You would never think to search inside a laboratory, yet they have rescued over 100 million animals from mice to birds, escaping scientific experiments that severely injured or could kill them with chemical, drug, food, and even cosmetic testings, instead they save lives (Humane Society of Grande Valley). Dark corner alleys or underground basements hold just worse sights, harsh dog owners betting hundreds of dollars on animal fightings. While training these innocent dogs, make them into vicious, blood thirsty creatures. The ASPCA can help with this as well, sending out “undercover” volunteers to turn in the people committing illegal crimes and saving the harmed dogs. Helping these animals is their one mission, most people believe this never happens. Yet we need them as much as they need
Each year, countless wild animals are sold as pets in Costa Rica or smuggled through customs and into the United Sates. To help combat this issue, Natuwa Macaw Sanctuary was founded by Rodolfo to house these illegal animals and educate the public. Ramapo students have taken two week-long trips a year to volunteer at Natuwa almost every year since Ben Levy brought the program to Ramapo. However, these volunteer trips are too short to truly address the issues that Natuwa is facing and Ramapo students quickly disengage from the issues. It is for this reason that Sarah and I decided to create a post-return program.
Growing up I was one of those kids that would find abandoned or lost animals on the street and run home crying and begging my mom if we could please keep it, the answer was usually no but we would always check for a collar or tags then take it back home or call the animal shelters to come pick the lost pet up. The older I got the more I began to realize how many animals the shelters in my community and surrounding area had to take in and care for and how much of a financial and emotional drain it could be on the workers, of course I wanted to do my part to help these poor innocent animals and I began volunteering after school and during the summer whenever I had the chance. This experience showed me both the good and the bad of what animal shelters have to handle and deal with everyday, from feeding, cleaning, adoptions, medical care, general upkeep, and how expensive it was to protect and help these animals. I began to see that as the years progressed less people wanted shelter dogs and the shelters quickly became over populated and had trouble finding ways to lessen their load. Many of the animal shelters in the United States face this same exact problem and are overwhelmed by the number of unwanted pets. There are many things that could lessen the strain such as mandatory spaying and neutering for pets that will not be used for breeding, tougher penalties to cut back on the number of dogs brought into shelters because of animal abuse, and having shelters hold adoption days at least twice a month to spread the word about older pet companions and to show the community how many animals the shelter takes in and cares for.
As my Aunt and I entered Judy's house which was a fifteen minute drive from where I live, I noticed cut black and white cat long haired cat with a pink nose and mysterious slanted eyes sneaking up on me near the corner of the hallway of the house. Judy shared with me that Katie was spayed, what foods to feed the cat and that she was tramatized. Judy had shared with me that she took Katie to the Shelter to try to find the owners but to no aval. You see, Katie had showed up at Judy's arcadia door so Judy took her in and kept her for several months before deciding to give the cat away.
The first one is asking questions. When I first started volunteering, I was really shy when it came to questions. I was always afraid to ask the teacher questions and the kids. I learned that it is really important to ask the teacher questions especially when you are confused. The teacher told me that when I am working with the kids, it is always best to rephrase the question so you know if they fully understand. Another effective way to tell whether or not they understand what they are doing is to ask them if they can explain it in their own words (Asking Questions to Improve Learning). Never be afraid to ask questions because, in the end, it could be really
There was an unforgettable experience with a cat on the stress. After I got off the bus and toward my aunt’s house, a cat came up to me. It was the first time happen to me that a cat was very affectionate to me. And it persistently rubbed against my legs. I was a little scared, and I did not know what to do because it looked different from the common cats that I saw. I stood a while and looked at the cat. A few minutes later, I continued walked toward my aunt’s house, and I saw the cat followed me for a block. After that, I knew this behavior was one of the symptoms of estrus, and I thought if that cat was a feral cat, how it lived. Cats are adorable animals, and they are one of my favorite pets. However, not