Category: Volunteer

it takes more than this

this morning i went to the shelter and walked some dogs. the weather has been cloudy/drizzly every time i’ve gone. i walked stallone and tanner again, plus a few new dogs.

zoe – zoe is old but zoe was pretty fun other than the fact she pulls a lot on leash. i took her in the big play yard and she fetched, dropped it, sat, shaked, and layed down. i was pretty impressed with her talent

polo – polo is on his second stint in the shelter. he was pretty well behaved and i got him to sit a couple of times. mostly he’s just way more interested in the other dogs and wants to play. he was really pretty.

gordita – let me tell you about this handful. gordita is very shy. i took her to a smaller play yard and let her off leash and she kind of checked it out and checked out other dogs walking by. when it was time to leave though she would not let me get near her at all. after about 15 minutes i finally asked a girl in the yard next to me if she could try. of course she got gordita on lease no problem. next time the leash stays on this young lady.

in other news today i decided to do a little refresh on my laptop. i bought it 7 years ago when i knew i’d be traveling more to see B. it has lasted me well since then. last year i upgraded the battery which was pretty easy. this time i decided to replace the keyboard and the touchpad. it took a little time but i just sat on the phone with B the whole time while i worked on it. no screws were left out and both work so much better now.

finally i cooked a pretty good soup for dinner…not great, but one i would make again. fish soup, from some site called posh journal lol..inside joke there.

today i became a dog walker

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!