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After a three-week hiatus, I count wet noses as soon as I arrive at Animal Haven. [...]
Picture of Lily
When I volunteer Fridays at 6:00 pm, final walks and final cleaning are the main agenda and we work fast. Walk any “Green” dog, the staffer says. (green = easy)
I leash up a newcomer, a pudgy, four-year-old Beagle, yet unnamed. A. says she calls her “Lady.”
“Lady” isn’t too [...]
Nick: The Cutest Boy on the Block
A pattern emerges.
The animal shelter population is always shifting. This time, Lona and the last two Billy Joel puppies are gone. Tammy, the little girl missing an eye is gone too. She never appeared on the adoption website. The staff is busy and I don’t [...]
Elmo, a skinny white poodle with a black Groucho Marx nose, kept pace with me so perfectly I had to keep checking that I still had a dog at the end of the leash. Elmo would be perfect for my parents, I think. Small, older, mellow.
I tell my mother about Elmo and she [...]
Clifford and Namesake
Wearing my purple volunteer shirt, I enter the animal shelter and admit I forgot all the instructions from Orientation.
I didn’t forget exactly. During Orientation volunteers, potential volunteers, staff and customers were milling around and weaving in and out of tight spaces. I couldn’t see much of the time. Orientation [...]
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Times Square, New York City
photo by Kate Mortell
Kunichika woodblock print
silkscreen by Nigel Robson
Ruahine Mountains, New Zealand
Flamingos, Baltimore Zoo
photo by Kate Mortell
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