a couple of weeks ago i started volunteering at animal defense league, which is the shelter where luna was adopted from. i’ve done a couple of shifts cleaning kennels, washing bowl, washing/filling kong toys. those couple of shifts are a prerequisite to being able to walk dogs. today i was able to get training to be a dog walker. obviously they didn’t train me on “walking dogs” but it was training on how they want me to enter kennels and how to read the dog boards that tell which dogs are easy/ask a staffer/don’t walk status. after i was trained they found a dog for me to walk. they picked dancer. on dancer’s card it said “leash is dumb”. and that’s about how she acted for 30 minutes. she walked ok maybe for about 10 minutes of that. most of the rest of the time was me coaxing her or me trying to pull her to get her to move. fun times. the reason i wanted to be dog walker status is that they don’t usually have any volunteer shifts after i get off work during the week. being a dog walker allows me to be able to just walk in and walk dogs (when they’re open). then i can work a shift or whatever on the weekends as i can, or walk dogs too, whatever. plus sometimes they do events that need dog walkers. anyways, here’s dancer!
