Mishka

Well as mentioned in the previous posts i was attempting to convince my mum to adopt Shirley, however, to my surprise we came to an agreement and Shirley (Mishka) was adopted! By us!
Turns out i can help AWL in more ways than one.
My parents are already in love with her and she loves her new home :)
Love From Sophie & Mishka

Our Second Visit

We arrived super early today to start our volunteer work and were rewarded by starting with dog kennel cleaning first. We had to scoop the poop, disinfect the kennels and then hose and sweep whilst feeding the eager dogs kept on the other side of the cage.
We then started walking the dogs, the ones who aren't sick with kennel cough are supposed to be walked first followed by the sick ones. Dogs are constantly coming and going from the shelter so we've already made twice as many friends as we had last week, a nice little X Border Collie named Shirley being my favourite whilst the Staffy Cross named Jetson was Katrina's favourite.
We decided we'd pay our favourite Cats a visit as well and were surprised when we discovered there had been some new adorable kittens brought in. We introduced ourselves to all the new inmates and caught up with our old buddies from last week as well.
As a finale Katrina and I brought out a few puppies and decided we'd play with them in the pen, using the open environment to show my mum what a beautiful puppy Shirley is, lets hope she falls for the puppy as well ;)
I honestly didn't think volunteer work could be this fun and entertaining, which shows we picked the right thing to do, which also gives to us in return. I've learnt so much in the last two visits and hope to continue learning in the future visits.

Our First Visit

I'm a tad late at updating due to my studious activities during the last few weeks but i am catching up on my posts now :)
Our first day of volunteering was amazing!
We started off with cleaning out the cat play pens whilst we had the cats socialising with each other and us. This took up the majority of our day as there was much to do like cleaning and refilling the litter boxes and spraying down the enclosures due to the cat flu going around. We then moved on to talking several of the dogs for walks and playing with them inside what are knows as "runs" where the dogs are let of the leash and get one on one play time.
As a volunteer we were given the freedom of when to have a break and what tasks we would like to complete. The staff there extremely friendly and very helpful to the newbies on their first d
ay.
In general both Katrina and myself had a great time volunteering over there and plan to keep volunteering even after the leadership program has been completed.

The Many Complications

So, we've taken a while to organise it but our volunteer program is almost set!
We will be going to the Animal Welfare League's shelter in Kemps Creek and volunteering with them on the weekends. Such activities may include cleaning the animals facilities, washing them, playing with them and doing any duties which are set by our supervisors.
Bianca, Katrina and myself are very adament in helping these animals that may have been abused or abandones earlier on in life and hope we can make a difference.
More posts shortly ;)
- Sophie