On September 27th, I attended the Animal Shelter Service Project. The Honors program ran the project and it was a one-time meet up. I joined about eight other girls, to help volunteer at the Atlantic County Animal Shelter in Pleasantville, New Jersey. When we got there via car pool, the woman who was in charge of the shelter greeted us. She was very kind and gave each of us specific jobs to do. Some people had to clean the kennels, some had to mop the floors and some had to clean the windows. As for my job, I partnered up with another girl to work on sterilizing and filling the litter boxes.
The task was not too hard. My partner and I decided that she would sterilize while I would fill. She would sterilize the litter boxes in this dishwasher like machine, where the boxes would be steamed with chemicals for several minutes. After they were done, I would then take them to the litter room and fill them up to the right amount. While the job was simple, it took a while. I ended up going through three large containers of litter in order to fill all the boxes.
After we were done with the litter boxes, we were allowed to go into the cat room and take the kittens out to play with. The kittens were very cute and lively and would keep jumping onto the volunteers. I then decided to check out the dogs. There were mainly pit bulls in the kennels and they were very loud with their barking. However, they were very sweet. They would press their bodies up against the fence so they can be petted. I played with the dogs for a while until it was time to go. The woman in charge thanked us for helping out and we all took a picture in front of the shelter.