September 27, 2011
Tonight we put on our volunteer hats and went to the
Nevada Humane Society to visit the animals. There are a lot of volunteering
options at NHS, and fortunately one of them is to show up anytime to play with
the cats or walk the dogs. They welcome the human interaction to help the
animals get socialized. We have both been through the volunteer training, L
with her previous Big and me a few years ago on my own. Since completing the
orientation back in 2008, I have only gone back once to play with a few of the dogs. It
was fun to have a friend to go back with this time. We started out in one of
the cat colonies, a large room with 20 or so cats in it. These are cats that
are more mellow and can be in a large room all together. Most of them were
sleeping and didn't react to people coming in the room, but one or two were
curious and were actually standing on their feet when we came by to pet them.
After visiting with the cats, we got a collar and leash
from the volunteer office and went to the dog kennels to find a dog to take for
a walk. First up was Loretta. She was very timid when we approached her kennel
and the perfect size for L to walk. We went up and down the cul-de-sac outside
and let Loretta sniff around and walk on the grass.
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| Walking Loretta |
When L was done with Loretta, we got her back in her
kennel and I decided I wanted to take out Jax whose kennel was right next door. Jax was a big, old
yellow lab with obvious hip problems. He seemed excited when we came up to
the kennel to get him, so we took him out. I held the leash since he was much
bigger and would have taken L for a walk instead of the other way around. Jax
seemed to get tired pretty quickly, so much so that L was able to walk him. We
didn’t keep him out too long before we brought him back to his kennel.
L wanted to go see her favorite cat once again before we
left, Amy, a Siamese. We let her out of her cage for a few minutes so we could
pet her and L could hold her. By then it was close to closing time, so we said
good-bye and promised to come back again.
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| L holding Amy |
L chose Heidi’s for dinner, but it was closed when we got
there. The sign said New Fall Hours...closed at 2:00pm Mondays and Tuesdays.
Darn! So she picked her go-to place, Port of Subs, as her second choice. After we ate, we ran my car through Sqeaky’s
car wash (always fun!) and then called it an evening.
Until our next adventure . . .
