Thursday's goings on

Hello Friends

 

By now you must be thinking, how long can it possibly take to put up fans.  Gabby can tell you 4 days and counting.  Do keep in mind that nearly 500 fans needed to be hung from the ceiling with 1,500 dog leashes.  We need only 20 more fans and the job will be finished.  I don’t think there is any hotter, stickier, more miserable work to be done here at the shelter.  But my Gabby is a trooper!

 

Such a trooper that he volunteered to help at 4am (actually Friday) to load up about 60 animals to be taken back to the animal hospital in Metairie, LA where they were evacuated from.  I am pretty sure it will keep us busy till day break at the very least.  But how exciting!!  Even though the animals will still probably not be able to go home with their owners (because they are still without places to have them with them) they will at least be in more comfortable surroundings. 

 

Today I spent the day at what I think it the most stressful area of the shelter.  It’s the phone desk.  A phone rings off the hook all day long.  People are calling to have their pets rescued or to look for their missing dog or cat.  If they are not calling in, they are showing up here to see if they can find them.  When they call or come in, we give them phone numbers to other resources or check our data base as well as the photo wall to see if they are here.  Remember most all of the animals here have KNOWN owners.  Only about 100 or so don’t and those are the ones that people hope to find are theirs.  Unfortunately, so far, none are.  Gabby and I are hoping to foster a wonderful black cat for our remaining time here.  He is one of the 4 cats that were in the barn that I met on my first night here.  We will see if we have any special pull after we do this animal load out at 4am.  I’m thinking it might garner us some major brownie points.

 

Tomorrow I hope to continue to work at the help desk and get it better organized.  It’s off the hook chaos right now and it’s making me uneasy.

 

We are thrilled to be here.  We appreciate all your emails, so keep em’ comin!

 

Ciao for now-

Carol & Gabby

 

For those of you waiting for pictures, please be patient.  We will try to take some soon.