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I have been volunteering there for about 15 months, mostly just one afternoon a week. I've been an office assistant/data entry person, a cat socializer, and now I'm taking photos of cats for their website. It's been fun, and a nice way to get out and meet very nice, animal-loving people. It's a no-kill shelter and doing very well for its size, as far as adoption rates go. www.ebhs.org
For anyone afraid to volunteer because they think they'll not be able to resist taking every animal home, I'd say this: you take care of the animals but you know you have your own at home. And you know that sooner or later every one of them is going to find their new home--it isn't up to you to save them by adopting them yourself. And when you watch this happen over and over again, and see even the most ordinary or flawed cats and dogs still finding good homes, you relax and just enjoy the process of watching them go from shelter animal to well loved pet.
Story that illustrates this: someone told me today about a cat we'd had for a couple of months. A nice enough cat but he was very high energy, jumping around a lot, and a lot of people passed him by. He was eventually adopted, though, and he is now a happy farm cat, living in a barn and hunting rodents with all that energy. He's still a nice friendly cat to his owners, and comes up for an ear scratch, etc. Happy as a clam. Just goes to show, there's a place for them all.
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