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Polydactyl cats are pretty cute! (They’re cats with a mutation that gives them extra toes on their paws.) This girl at the shelter, Polly, [...]
June 22, 2013
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This is Batman. He’s only a year old, and playful like most young cats are. He chases toy balls, and adores these braided strips. He bats [...]
February 7, 2013
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I try to respect people’s beliefs and/or fears. After all, I look away whenever I see a needle on a t.v. screen, much less in real life. [...]
February 2, 2013
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I volunteered at my first out-of-the-shelter animal shelter event yesterday. It was a patio restaurant kind of thing–a 3-course meal for [...]
October 30, 2012
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What makes you willing to stop whatever you’re doing and help someone? It seems to break down into these components: 1) Your personal [...]
October 4, 2012
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The shelter I volunteer at brought in a bunch of new dogs that needed baths, and I was around, so I got asked to help. If I’ve ever washed [...]
September 22, 2012
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* * * * This shelter cat’s fairly certain that under her bed’s the safest place to be, which isn’t a very [...]
September 6, 2012
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Generally speaking, animals don’t let their disabilities get them down. There’s a itty bitty (2 pounds) black puppy (2 months old) [...]
August 23, 2012
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Back at the shelter again, I walked a few more dogs–the same wiggly happy little black dog with one ear up and one ear down, which I [...]
August 16, 2012
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Finally, I finished all the stuff I had to do in order to volunteer at the shelter. First, I walked two little dogs, because, as I’ve said [...]
August 11, 2012
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