Sometime last month (September), at a big park about 45 minutes from where I live; there was an animal shelter event. It wasn't just the animal shelter that I volunteer at, but all the animal shelters in the big city near us (can't say the name!) were at this event. I can't remember the name of the event ):
Anyways, the animal shelter that I volunteer at brought 20 dogs! Including my foster dog, Jessica. I had Jessica on a leash most of the time, but when I went to the other shelter's tents, my mom held her, or I put her in her kennel in 'our' animal shelter's tent.
One of the animal shelters had a whole bunch of puppies! They were sooo cute! I didn't have my camera that day, so I don't have any pictures :(.
One tent there wasn't an animal shelter, but it was a wildlife sanctuary! There were 2 women, and 1 man at the tent. One of the women's name was Toni. She was the main person I think. Anyways, They had put a small cage out, and put a huge tortoise in it.
Anyways, I got to talking to them about how when I grow up, I want to start my own wildlife sanctuary. I helped them make some signs and taped them up on their tent.
We had two women who were very interested in adopting Jessica. One lady was going to adopt her in October (this month) or November (I can't remember which one). The other lady walked her around for a while, and decided to adopt her! She took her home that day. I was so sad. I had become so attached to Jessica, and it was very hard to let her go. I was really sad for a couple of days, and I really missed her. But I know that it's good that she got adopted, and now I can get a new foster dog!
When the Wildlife Sanctuary people were tearing down, and loading stuff into their van, I asked if I could help. So Toni and the other women handed me stuff, and I took it to the van where the man loaded it into the van. They were so nice, they gave me a free t-shirt (about their sanctuary) and a key chain with a stuffed animal wolf on it.
Before they had started tearing down, they had given some 'demonstrations' with 3 animals they brought. They brought a (not including the tortoise) Kinkajou, a Fennec Fox, and a Capuchin Monkey named Popeye!!
Info about Popeye:
Popeye is a 41 year old (!) Capuchin Monkey. His name is Popeye cause he only has one eye. When Popeye was just a little baby monkey, someone bought him as a pet. Monkeys do not make good pets. Why? Cause when Monkeys are about 2 years old, they turn 'mean'. They start biting, and they aren't as nice as they used to be.
When Popeye started biting, his owners locked him into a teeny tiny cage. Monkeys need to climb and have plenty of room, but Popeye didn't have that. The cage was so small, he couldn't even stand up! And when I monkey is hungry, you think they want banana's, right? Wrong. Popeye doesn't like banana's.
Whenever Popeye would try to bite, his owners would punish him by either taking his water away, or replacing his water with whiskey, which made him drunk and sick. Because he was in such a small place, and couldn't move around a lot, his bones didn't grow right. Now, Popeye can't jump, play, or climb like normal monkeys can.
That is why Monkey's don't make good pets. I felt so sorry for Popeye like everyone else there did too. But now, he gets very well taken care of. After everyone walked away (and Toni was still holding Popeye) I asked if I could pet Popeye, but Toni said not right then, cause other people might want to pet him too.
But later when I was finished helping them put stuff into their van, Toni remembered that I had wanted to pet Popeye, so she got him back out, and I got to pet Popeye the Capuchin Monkey!! He was scared, cause he thought I was going to take him away from Toni (of course I didn't!). It was so awesome. Adam (twin bro) was really jealous, cause the Capuchin Monkey is his favorite animal of all times! Poor Adam.. LOL
The next dog I wanted to foster was Shady. She was a sweet black Shepherd mix. Mom called dad, but dad wanted to take a break before getting another foster dog. :(
Last week, mom went up to the shelter to get Shady, and while she was waiting, she saw three adorable pit bull puppies in one of the kennels. She asked whoever was there if we could foster on of the puppies, and she said sure! There are 2 chocolate ones (one boy and one girl. named Hubba and Barnabiss), and 1 female tan one (named Yumi).
The puppies weren't spayed/neutered and didn't have a microchip yet. That was going to be done a few days later. Thursday, we were supposed to get a call from a women that worked there, and go pick up Hubba. But she never called! So.. We waited until Saturday after the adoption day we got her!
She is soooooo cute!!!!! She's just Amy's size. Amy does NOT like her. Hubba always runs up to Amy and licks her and tries to play with her, and Amy does not like it. Ranger just ignores the little pit bull.
None of my family or I like the name Hubba, so we changed her name to Emma. Emma learned the first day not to go into our kitchen or 'sun room' (where we eat). Saturday, she went to an adoption day, and normally we would get her back Saturday night, but she got diarrhea, and she had to get her stiches out, so we are going to wait and get her Wednesday (tomorrow). I can't wait! I miss her!
Here are 9 pictures of Emma:
i love this one! It's my background :)
Emma in the car while we were still at the shelter (the first day we got her)
Emma looking at Valley -- confused.
Emma with a toy looking at me confused. She gave this look ALL the time. Everytime she saw something she didn't know what it was (or what we were doing) she would turn her head side to side with her ears perked up.
Amy finally played with Emma
Emma under the piano bench
Amy got mad at Emma for getting into her basket
Bloggin out,
Sarah
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