Furry Friday: dog overload
2009-Sep-25, Friday 10:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mellowtiggerStory: Work is keeping a hectic pace lately. I visited all 5 shelters this week, installing new digital cameras and training people on the new upload process. (Photos of our animals should improve in quality next week.) We'll be closed on Monday as we move to a new database and animal management system. We also have our annual "Whisker Whirl" fundraiser this weekend. And we have an unusual increase in the number of dogs given to us, so we've also made a media blitz to ask for adopters to visit them. We had such a large response online that our website crashed yesterday. Our hosting company briefly powered down our server to install more RAM to better handle the increased load. I also plan to be working on Saturday to help with data entry prior to the system switchover on Monday.
Busy, busy, busy.
Animals: I have just one animal to highlight today, as I've been too busy to do much visiting with animals lately. Ronia needs a special owner. I believe that she was dropped off in our night surrender cages, so I don't know much about her history. She is currently in a cat colony room, maintaining a delicate truce with the other cats. She looks like the typical alley cat, grey with black stripes, and she needs a lot of tender loving care.
The first day I met her, her ears were back and her hair was slightly ruffled. She merely tolerated being pet, obviously trembling while I stood in the room. The next day, she seemed to recognize this longhair guy with a beard, because she meowed once at me (without moving from her perch) as I entered the room. Her whole body still trembles, but she turned her head to push against my hand while petting her and I could barely hear her purring.
She needs a loving home. She needs convincing that the world isn't the scary awful place that it seems she's experienced so far. Ronia is currently available for visitation and adoption at our Golden Valley facility.
How you can help: If anybody still subscribes to newspapers, your local shelter can probably use your old pages to line cages. Check with them before dropping off your paper for reuse rather than just giving them to recycling.
Busy, busy, busy.
Animals: I have just one animal to highlight today, as I've been too busy to do much visiting with animals lately. Ronia needs a special owner. I believe that she was dropped off in our night surrender cages, so I don't know much about her history. She is currently in a cat colony room, maintaining a delicate truce with the other cats. She looks like the typical alley cat, grey with black stripes, and she needs a lot of tender loving care.The first day I met her, her ears were back and her hair was slightly ruffled. She merely tolerated being pet, obviously trembling while I stood in the room. The next day, she seemed to recognize this longhair guy with a beard, because she meowed once at me (without moving from her perch) as I entered the room. Her whole body still trembles, but she turned her head to push against my hand while petting her and I could barely hear her purring.
She needs a loving home. She needs convincing that the world isn't the scary awful place that it seems she's experienced so far. Ronia is currently available for visitation and adoption at our Golden Valley facility.
How you can help: If anybody still subscribes to newspapers, your local shelter can probably use your old pages to line cages. Check with them before dropping off your paper for reuse rather than just giving them to recycling.