I'm volunteering for the first time!

**jennielynn1970** · 07-22-2010, 02:02 PM

good for you!! I love helping out with our local shelters. I did more volunteer work for one than the other (it had an actual shelter, not just fostering in homes), so I was there one day a week cleaning and socializing with the kitties. It was a wonderful experience, I just wish I still had the time for it (the the ability to say no to adopting more and more cats as I worked there... it just breaks your heart!).

Hope you have a great time, and you'll have to let us know how it goes and how many cats and dogs you come home with!

**Taz_Zoee** · 07-22-2010, 02:06 PM

You will

it! I enjoy it so much, I am upset when I can't go. Like this weekend.

And now one of my co-workers adopted a dog last week and another co-worker is going to possibly get one today.

I always thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, seeing them sitting there waiting for their family to come in. But it really helps knowing they WILL go to a home and will not be killed. It's all good!!

Let us know how it goes, of course! Have fun!

**happylabs** · 07-22-2010, 02:37 PM

Thanks ladies! I honestly cannot afford to bring any home. And, yes, knowing that they will always be there until someone adopts them is a good thing. I honestly do not think I could volunteer at the local SPCA as much as I would love to work with the doggies too.

I'll keep you posted.

**catmandu** · 07-22-2010, 06:29 PM

I used to volunteer at the SPCA all the time and loved socializing Cats and Kittens, and walking Dogs and Puppies who had never known a kind voice or a pat on the head.

Now it is two bus trips and almost a mile to the local shelter so I have not gone in a while

Maybe it is just as well as I would want to take all those sad little faces home to My Hotel.

Good Luck with your volunteering and please take lots of Photos so the people in your area call fall in love and take a new friend home!!

**Karen** · 07-22-2010, 06:43 PM

Congratulations and good luck! I know it'll have hard days and great days, just remember you're helping!

**Laura's Babies** · 07-22-2010, 09:44 PM

You will love it! Go have fun and enjoy yourself and the kitties!

**Sundance** · 07-22-2010, 11:56 PM

That's great, Helen! It's wonderful that you'll be volunteering at a no-kill shelter. Our local shelter is an open-admissions shelter (they euthanize), which is the real downside of my volunteer experience there. It will be nice for you to work in a shelter where every animal has a chance to be adopted into a forever home. You have a good start already as far as fitting in and doing a good job...you have your own furry family and a positive attitude

You will be an asset to the shelter! Have fun and let us know how it goes