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I am a volunteer adoptions counselor for cats at my local shelter, The Washington County Humane Society. Today,Saturday, the shelter was open to the public from 1 to 5 in the afternoon and I was there as a counselor. I worked a little more than four hours and didn't even find five minutes of free time to sneak out for a cigarette. The place was nut… read more

Posted in Adoptions

The shelter was absolutely wild this afternoon, but it was probably worth it because we got a lot of applications for adoptions. I don't know exactly how many because I was so busy I didn't have time to look at the stack of applications but it must have been a dozen or more. I only had two applications myself but while talking to one of the other v… read more

Posted in Adoptions

The shelter was absolutely wild this afternoon, but it was probably worth it because we got a lot of applications for adoptions. I don't know exactly how many because I was so busy I didn't have time to look at the stack of applications but it must have been a dozen or more. I only had two applications myself but while talking to one of the other v… read more

Posted in Adoptions

About a month ago a couple came to the shelter and wanted to adopt two kittens. After looking at some of the many kittens we had available the woman fell in love with one and wanted to adopt it. Her husband then looked at one of the other two kittens in that same cage and wanted to adopt that one. The woman asked why there were the three kittens in… read more

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Today at the shelter was a good day. I helped get three cats adopted and the other adoptions counselors and caregivers also got several adoptions. But, Yippee! The best one was Edwina! She has been at the shelter for almost eleven months and today a man came to adopt her. He would have come sooner but he was waiting until he bought his house and go… read more