Shelters are an important part of society. They pick up all the stray animals and give them good homes. Without them, our world would fall apart because of all the stray or “Wild” animals. Most shelters are good such as the one I got my dog from, (Name of Shelter). Other aren’t so great. Such as the S.P.C.A, which kills the pets if they have been there too long. But that is for a different post at a different time.

          In shelters, there are different jobs that need to be done, inside and outside the shelter. Shelters like new hope need help with the process of feeding and bathing the animals as well as needing fosters. If you do not know, when you foster pets, you are taking a role as one of the homes that hold the dogs to help out the shelter. When you foster pets, you get all of the food and water needed to allow them to live from the owners of the shelter. Places like the S.P.C.A on the other hand, kill the animals after about 2 weeks. Both me and one of my teachers got our dogs from the New Hope Dog Shelter. We both think it is the best shelter and other shelters should follow its examples.

          Shelters are a very important way to make sure that animals such as dogs and cats don’t go wild. Without shelters, the world would be overrun with wild animals that attack humans and have diseases. Shelters that don’t kill animals such as New Hope Shelter for Dogs, are the ones that generally most people would like to go to. If it weren’t for the S.P.C.A which kills the animals if they have been there too long, but have the biggest property, and the most money to spent on commercials. But without the S.P.C.A we would have too many wild animals running around. Well, a lot more than we have no anyway. In the society of Saskatoon, most people love animals, and the people that run the New Hope Shelter for Dogs loves animals and that is why they allow people to foster. I think all shelters should do that, not kill the animals that have stayed there too long. Shelters are an important part of our society and so if shelters need help looking after the animals, then we should if we can.

            If you already are volunteering at a shelter than you already know what I am talking about. But if you don’t volunteer at a shelter and want to, then here is some jobs that you should expect to see. Foster Homes, Animal Feeders, Veterinarians, Donation Collectors, Kennel Cleaners, and so on. My point is that shelters are in major need of help with Volunteers and we should help them. In my household we have a dog that we got from a shelter. At this shelter, my mother had asked what it meant to foster dogs. As soon as she said the question, all the workers got happier. It is kind of sad that they need volunteers so badly that when someone asks about fostering they get all excited. My auntie actually fosters dogs and if our family had a bigger yard, we would be fostering dogs too. I hope you enjoyed everything I had to say about shelters in this post. In the next one, I will be talking about my dog, the shelter I got her from, why she was in a shelter and more.