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tower time posted:The shelter where I work has a stray dog section and an adoption dog section, with a total of 90 dog kennels between them. I wear earplugs every day I work in there in order to protect myself from hearing loss over time (the sheer number of dogs and noise will damage your hearing over time) which makes it pretty hard to communicate with coworkers. Every kennel gets cleaned top to bottom daily, with small cleanups and spot checks throughout the afternoon. This is me, but closer to 150 (that's just dogs, there's probably similar or more capacity for cats, but gently caress cats.) Also, if you're thinking about volunteering, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PLEASE YES WE LOVE YOU. Also, to those sharing euth stories, y'all are doing heart sticks before dumping the animals in the freezer, right?
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Shithouse Dave posted:omg yes. Good.
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Feb 22, 2015 15:35
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Pile of Kittens posted:He was a good dog and you are a good human. Emptyquote
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Feb 22, 2015 23:26
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Last week: We got in a stray APBT who was really sweet, we named him Western. He passed his SAFER eval with all 1s, and he was awesome for staff and volunteers alike, so we put him up for adoption. Until last saturday, when one of our volunteers threw a fuckton of loaded kongs into his kennel, we discovered he's extremely protective of kongs (gallows humor: "He's King of Kongs") This dog was staring down and hard growling anyone who tried to take him for a walk or even enter his kennel, he's refusing to get off of his bed, he's literally laying on top of 3-4 kongs. It took three people and a catch-pole to get him out of his kennel and moved into a kennel in the non-public isolation ward. BTW, this all happened on the adoption floor. While we were open to the public.  The day before yesterday: Time to escort Western to the gates of Valhalla. We give him a dose in food to get him shithoused before we go into the kennel, this guy is enough of a concern we don't even try to move him into 'The Room', we're gonna do this thing right here. So he's drowsy and can't put up too much of a fight, and even when he was being crazy he still liked me enough to be fractionally less crazy, so I'm assisting even though it's not my day for this poo poo. I try the towel thing on the neck and shoulders that Shithouse Dave mentioned, it worked pretty well (thanks for the tip). I'm sitting on homeboy, someone else has his leg, and a third person has the needle. When it's done I sit there in the kennel petting Western while someone goes to get the cart and a few blankets so we can cart him to the freezer. When the cart gets here I pick up the meat and set him on the cart, and cover him up. I pat his head and say goodbye. Fun Fact: sounds like some of you guys have a cooler chest, we have a full-size industrial walk-in.
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Feb 27, 2015 06:03
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That's a great idea with the dog attack videos, I'm gonna steal that for training folks. We have another bully named Riser who's pretty RMJ, and I had to calm down a volunteer who was too freaked out to walk him. As for Western, it's sad, but ultimately for the best. I know how fast even a stable dog can lose it in a kennel, it's why I push really hard for enrichment for every dog we have. I love pibbles more than just about anything, I'm even known in my shelter as 'the pitbull guy' for a bunch of reasons. (I plan to start a shelter training program aimed at making the good ones we get even better before we adopt them out, not just good citizens, but almost service dog levels of training. I just need to get my CPDT first.) but I'd rather see 'borderline' dogs PTSed than ever see another 'vicious pitbull attack' on the news or have to explain to some idiot that no, actually, pitbulls aren't fire breathing murderous hellbeasts with locking jaws that will eat your pets/kids/grandma. Error 404 fucked around with this message at 17:18 on Feb 28, 2015 |
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Feb 28, 2015 17:13
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Suspect Bucket posted:Dinosaurs never died out, they just hid under a feather blanket. To anyone who's ever had to handle pissed off chickens/turkeys, that line about raptors being 6 foot turkeys was no loving joke.
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Apr 30, 2015 03:53
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The only thing I have to add is uuuuuuuurgh and my afterwork beer consumption has increased 500%. Also 4th of july dogs. We are over capacity with peoples loving terrified dogs. Come and get your dogs, assholes.
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Jul 7, 2015 14:51
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GiantAmazonianOtter posted:My boyfriend and I are fostering a tiny derpy little female cat at the moment from a local shelter as her owner died. We rent a flat (and our landlord allows cats, which is rare in this city) so are kind of reluctant to get our own cat in case we can't take it with us. I figure this is a super cool way to have a pet, help an animal until they can be adopted and take some pressure off a shelter. Yes, this is incredibly cool of you.
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