Calvin, one of our regular TVAR cats at home, greets me after work. 🙂
Today’s Clear The Shelter event was every bit as busy as expected, and they’ve decided to extend it until tomorrow. This is great news for the animals waiting for good homes! I haven’t heard the final numbers yet, but we were at 85 animals adopted near the end of the day. I know our goal was 100 animals, so I’m curious to see how close we got today and where we end up after tomorrow!
That is not great news for today’s blog entry as I’m pretty wiped and also pretty work- focused. But it does mean more animal pics, so it’s a win on that level. 🙂
Two little foster kittens returning to the shelter for the event tomorrow. There’s actually a third kitten, all black, hiding in the back who didn’t make it into the shot.
We have a massive Clear The Shelter event going on at work tomorrow, and I need to make sure I get as much sleep as possible tonight. It’s going to be loud, and crowded, and stressful – if I’m not well rested there’s an excellent chance I’ll get overwhelmed and overstimulated.
With that, I absolutely am gonna pull a freebie Blaugust post for tonight, and share some cat pics from work. 🙂
Wish us luck! The shelters in South Carolina – and in many other places in the US – have been filled to over capacity for some time now. It’s especially bad for dogs at the moment, with so many shelters so full that our normal evacuation plans in the event of a hurricane aren’t going to be feasible this year unless something changes. Hopefully we can get many great animals into new homes over the weekend. ❤
Please consider supporting your local shelter, spay and neuter initiatives, and TNR programs in any way you can. If you’re not sure how to help, contact the shelter and ask!
I unfortunately got up much earlier than I should have this morning, so I’m going to try getting this post together before I go to work, to post later. I know a lot of my fellow Blaugustians write in the mornings, but that’s never been something that works well for me, so we’ll see how this goes.
Blaugust is a time I try different things, so at least there’s that!
When I posted “Introduce Yourself: So, what do I do all day?,” I’d intended that post to be a little more “A Day in the Life.” Only, once I started explaining the basics, the word count got away from me. I want to come back to it, so I’m going to start doing that today.
Our days in the Animal Resource Center don’t really follow a set schedule since they rely so heavily on the needs of the public, but I’m going to try to do this post about our morning routine and lost and found pets. Then I’ll do another post about our other duties. Trying to put all of our duties into one post had me running super long again!
A slightly rumpled-looking me at work. I’m in black scrubs and grinning my face off as I hold a huge Maine Coon cat who came in as a stray. He later went to a good home.
For “Introduce Yourself” week, I’m going to chat a little bit about my job in animal sheltering.
Small content warning. I’m not going to get into details, but I can’t explain being part of a “No-Kill Community” without mentioning animal euthanasia.
I’m always of two minds when writing about work. On the one hand, most people don’t want to hear about other people’s jobs. On the other hand people who DO want to hear about it REALLY want to hear about it due to shared experiences or curiosity. And since I’m back in the animal welfare sector, it’s a topic not everyone is familiar with.
So, when I say I work at a large, open-intake, private non-profit animal shelter that’s part of a No-Kill community, what do I mean?
Charlie Chaplin – A black and white DSH kitty with the hint of a mustache stops in the middle of playing with a bacon cat toy. He stares, curious, at the camera.
Taking a break from gaming content to share with you how we wound up with our accidental foster cat, Charlie Chaplin (named by shelter staff). Mostly because the story amuses me, but also because a surprising (maybe unsurprising) number of folks I’m meeting through Blaugust are rather interested in the cats. 🙂
To set the scene, for those who don’t already know, I work at my local animal shelter. I actually have a post half prepped about what I do all day, but the key point here is just that I work there.
Charlie came to my shelter through Animal Control. He’d been picked up as an injured stray cat, and spent some time at a local emergency vet being treated for an abscess on his leg. When he was stabilized, he came to my shelter.
This is where the first amusing bit happens. See, my department does process Citizen Stray intakes – but Animal Control intakes come in through the back of the building. I saw Charlie only briefly, and only because I overheard the vet techs talking about his mustache.
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