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Tag Archives: animal shelter

  • 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, [...]

    Polly

    June 22, 2013
  • 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 [...]

    Batman Rises

    February 7, 2013
  • 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. [...]

    Superstition Ain’t the Way

    February 2, 2013
  • 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 [...]

    Put Bacon on It!

    October 30, 2012
  • What makes you willing to stop whatever you’re doing and help someone? It seems to break down into these components: 1) Your personal [...]

    Help Somebody

    October 4, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    Washing Dogs

    September 22, 2012
  • *     *     *     * This shelter cat’s fairly certain that under her bed’s the safest place to be, which isn’t a very [...]

    Better Hide

    September 6, 2012
  • Generally speaking, animals don’t let their disabilities get them down. There’s a itty bitty (2 pounds) black  puppy (2 months old) [...]

    Fuzzy Optimism

    August 23, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    Helped a Cat get Adopted

    August 16, 2012
  • 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 [...]

    Like I was on Water Skis

    August 11, 2012

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