After a brief tour to get the lay of the land, Community Engagement Coordinator Molly Bowe assigned us the task of cleaning out the building’s Education Center. It didn’t take long for everyone to find something to work on, from sorting through and organizing donated materials, to vacuuming, mopping, sanitizing and scrubbing the room from top to bottom. Like everything we do as an organization, we made it fun, and were “ice skating” around on rags to get that floor as clean as it has probably EVER been, haha.

Promises were made of letting us wash a new litter of puppies that had recently arrived at the shelter, and we were literally chomping at the bit to do it! We got to wash, dry, socialize and transport what one member so aptly named, “Cutie 1, 2, and 3.” Afterwards, a few of us were taught “click for quiet,” and went around feeding treats to the well-behaved adult dogs. By the time we finished, we were pooped (literally and figuratively!), but beyond thrilled to have spent our afternoon assisting the shelter staff with anything they needed. Special thanks to Cathy Kay, Four Corners Organizing, for doing the leg work of setting this all up.