I might be the busiest unemployed person you know! Between going to the gym, interviewing, filling out applications, church, pups, and grad school, I've also started volunteering again. This time I'm helping out at the Spokane Humane Society. I went through volunteer orientation a few weeks ago and now I have a snazzy new t-shirt to add to my collection. The t-shirt makes you a bona fide woof walker volunteer!
My goal is to try and volunteer at least once a week even after I find a new job. So what do I do there? Well I walk doggies who aren't as lucky as my puparoos! It is so sad sometimes to see those dogs in their kennels. It is even more heartbreaking when I just can't get to all of them in a single shift. My heart goes out to their amazing faces and I hope they will find their forever homes in between my visits. But it is great fun to take them out to the playpens and let them run around. They seem so happy to be outside and free. Then I usually take them for a walk before returning them to their temporary homes and grabbing another one. I love feeling like I am making a difference for the animals and hopefully helping them get adopted so they can change a person's life for the better the way Missaroo changed mine.
My heart is truly being called into animal welfare. I even registered for the 2011 No More Homeless Pets Conference this October. I'm hoping my love of animals in need and my Master's in Public Administration will get me to the job of my dreams. But for right now I love volunteering. Every. Single. Day.
Good for you! I also just recently signed up to volunteer at no-kill shelter in Chicago as well as joined their Junior Board. My goal is to volunteer 4-8 hours a week, which is no easy task with my current job! I'd love to keep in touch, there is nothing I want more than to be the Director at the shelter someday!
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