Things You Don't Know: Being an Animal Shelter Volunteer

Lending a hand, helping out and volunteering at an animal shelter....invites a lot of comments. We (volunteers) hear it constantly; "how do you do it?", "isn't that so hard?" and "I could never go to there, it's so sad it would break my heart." Actually.....what's heartbreaking is seeing people NOT coming to help, because there is only so much the staff and core volunteers can do, and with animals coming in constantly, there is always a need for willing hands and loving hearts. What you may not realize.....is that there is nothing wrong with these dogs and cats. They aren't in a facility for any reason other than that life tossed their family a curve ball; these animals found themselves here when their human passed away, moved, had a baby, or decided they had no more time for a furry family member.