I took my sick self to the Dr., a job interview and the Animal Shelter which was right next door! I fell in love with every freaking dog there! Somewhere along the lines I started figuring out who amongst the potential adopters would be good with which dog....hehehehehe! I became so tight with some of these folks!
This one lady though, omg...I wanted to scream she took a big beautiful lab mix who was excited to get out of the kennel and as soon as he was riled she was like oh no...I want a calm dog and then I heard her chatting with her kids and eventually of course, I opened my big mouth and said maybe you should get a stuffed animal???? The lady from the shelter, who also heard the nonsense coming out of this woman's mouth, turned and hurried away...I followed her, sure I was getting kicked out
and she turned and looked at me and was hysterically laughing...she said she was so glad I said something...needless to say that woman was pissed and left! Honestly she needs NOT to have a dog...
I personally feel I helped adopt 5 dogs out! Yeah, I'm bragging, it felt great and the people were wonderful! I even talked a very elderly couple out of a puppy and found them the sweetest little 10 year old pug beagle mix!
When I was leaving three people from the shelter came up and said Thank You to me and said how sweet that was and how good I was at it...and asked if I was happy that I got them adopted...I was surprised, I thought I was covert and on the downlow, hadn't noticed they were watching....I told them yeah I felt good about the dogs going to forever homes, but I can't imagine leaving the others behind each day...and I told them how grateful I am for people like them, devoting all their time etc...see good people are just always good, thanking me? ridiculous, we owe so much to folks like this.
I got in my car and cried my eyes out...I know I could never work in a shelter...how selfish I feel...
but all in all, it was a great experience!