Transport Day!

This blog begins with a transport day. 

I've been involved in animal rescue for around three years now, but recently decided to share what it is like to be involved in rescue. I oversee a region of fosters and adoption coordinators for a Metro DC animal rescue. 

The day started with picking up blankets and towels for one of the shelters we get animals from. 

Then I stopped by an adoption event - we had around 10 dogs there.  You wouldn't think that an adoption event would get dogs adopted, right? A bunch of people standing around holding dogs? Well, I have had around 25 plus foster dogs and almost all of them got adopted because of an adoption event!

Then we had a transport. From Kinston, North Carolina we managed to bring up:

Becca - Becca went with a new foster. She is a long and lean lab mix, with soft eyes. She let me hug and kiss her head. Usually, it isn't a good idea to hug or kiss a dog you just met, unless you want a nip on the nose! But Becca was so swe

et and loving. 

At the transport, Becca was being handled by a volunteer's father, who remarked about me, "oh, you are another one that was allowed to watch too much Lassie growing up". I guess so. Or maybe I want to be able to watch Animal Cops on Animal Planet without crying, because I know that I am doing something, however small, to save those animals. 

April - April doesn't have a foster, but the shelter was PACKED, so we brought her up anyway and put her in doggie daycare. I'll post some pictures of April at doggie daycare soon.

Goldie - Goldie went to doggie daycare as well. He is a lab/bulldog mix. Very cute and loves to play.  

Henderson - a shy chow boy. He went to a new foster, who has two golden retrievers.

Auburn and her two pups (now named Missy and Duke) came up as well. A new volunteer offered to take them all - isn't that wonderful? 

And Ms. Fields - her family dropped her off at the shelter in the middle of the night with a note attached to her saying they had her for three years, and fed her table scraps. Honestly, how can you turn your dog into a shelter in the middle of the night?