the shelter. day one.

Today I worked from the shelter. I spent half of my day working on my laptop and answering phones. I was the greeter and got to help people out and answer the questions that they had. We had a couple of adoptions today. A cute boston terrier got a home today. It's nice to see these previously unwanted animals get homes.

I had one interesting (and sad) story today. A guy called and explained that there was a stray cat in his neighborhood and he'd started to feed it a while back and it stuck around. Well, they discovered later that the cat was pregnant. He said that he saw her last night walking around the neighborhood with a kitten hanging part way out of her vagina. He called the 24 hour vet in town and the vet walked him through out to get the kitten out using baby oil and stuff. He successfully got the kitten out but the vet said that there's no telling how long the kitten had been hanging out of the cat. And that the other kittens may not have been able to be born because the one was stuck. The vet said that it was was possible that the other kittens were stillborn inside the cat. The vet quoted the man $450 for C-section. The man didn't want to pay that much for a stray cat. So he called our shelter. The city shelter would just put the cat down while we were a no kill shelter that might be able to get help for the cat. I passed the call on to our medical staff. I have
no idea what she told the man but it was an interesting story nonetheless.

There was also a couple that came in with a pretty blue heeler today. They had to give him up because he chased their horses and would try to bite them. Sweet, sweet dog. He just didn't work on the ranch.

Overall, it was a good day. Damn good day even. It was nice to get out of the house and get to interact with people as opposed to being alone all day. I think I might start working at the shelter 4 hours a day. They have the internet there and I can still get my work done. It might just be the perfect situation.