Well, today was my first day this month I got any actual "free" time to remove myself from my desk and get out to explore the world outside, so I decided to hop on my bike and take a ride out to the Pennington County Humane Society to give Dawn Williamson a hand with the dogs out there. I think it's about two or three miles out there from my house. I managed to bump into Jerry and Marilyn Wigness along the way too. They were walking into town across the 1st Street Bridge (good timing). Anywho, Dawn and I went out to breakfast at Dee's, over to the city pound (didn't know where that was until today) to give some new kittens their shots, and hosed out the dog kennels. There must have been about 90% black dogs out there, so it was like a sea of black when Dawn opened the kennels to let them all out the back door, one row of dogs at a time, so we could clean. It can get a little noisy in there as it's a metal quonset hut-type shelter. All the dogs are so friendly, though, every one of them wanting to dance and play when they got out of their kennels. I just wish I had more time to spend out there during the day. I also got to hold the new kittens at the city pound located by the train tracks just north of downtown TRF so Dawn could get their digital pictures to advertise them for adoption. They were all pretty cute kittens. There was a nice rottweiler/black lab mix there too.
Anywho, if you haven't considered it before, you should try volunteering at your local animal shelter for an afternoon or more. It may be a little noisy and perhaps a little "dirty" work, but the animals sure do appreciate all the attention they get (they don't complain as much as us humans either). Check out this site to see what dogs I helped out with today. You can see I'm not lying about the number of black dogs too... http://www.pawstrf.org/availabledogs.htm :o)
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