Service Learning - Week Six

After a Spring Break that was not much of a break, it was nice to return to the humane society to help out where I could. Everyone seemed happy to see me, especially the dogs. The only real downside to this week was that the storms had turned all of the play yards to mud. But none of the dogs seemed to mind, they were perfectly happy to run around in the mud and then jump on me, or each other. At one point I did have difficulty with a few dogs though. The humane society had placed three very energetic dogs into one kennel together which made it difficult to get only one dog in or out at a time. Lucky, the people who work there are very nice, and one of guys helped me with those particular dogs so that each of them got a chance to burn off a little energy in the play yard. Several people came in to look at the animals while I was there, but unfortunately most of them left without taking an animal home. What made me sadder though was a dog that had been adopted a few weeks ago was back at the shelter and up for adoption again. Also, one of the dogs I played with two weeks ago (the last time I was at the humane society, remember last week was Spring Break) was still there. It occurs to me that I need only volunteer for two more weeks in order to reach the goal of twenty-four hours. I am not sure just how I feel about that. I enjoy volunteering and playing with the dogs, and the humane society doesn’t seem to have oodles of volunteers so I sort of feel like I’m needed. Yet at the same time, I don’t know if I should continue after I reach my twenty-four hours or not, since the semester will be over not long after that and I will move back home to Oklahoma for the little bit of the summer that I won’t be on vacation. At any rate, it certainly is a question that I will need to consider and make a decision on in the not too distant future.