Shelter workers deserve chocolate!

[urbpan]

I dropped off another cat at my local MSPCA shelter today.  Normally you're supposed to give a 50 dollar donation when you surrender an animal, but since I'm doing it as part of my job, and I donate 10 dollars a month from my paycheck (I consider it a tithe) to them anyway, I just sign the form and leave the cat.  I always feel like I should do something more, but what?  Today while I waited for the carrier to come back, the shelter workers were talking to each other, and one expressed a need for chocolate. 

I went home for my lunch break and walked my dogs, then stopped off at the drug store for a couple bags of candy.  I quickly dropped them at the counter of the adoption center (mumbling something like "here you go") and left.  Shelter workers deserve chocolate.

I urge everyone to bring chocolate to their local animal shelter.  They'll appreciate it, wouldn't you?

Comments

[buboniclou.livejournal.com]

As long as they don't use the chocolate to cut down the dog population! O.o

[hai-kah-uhk.livejournal.com]

There's always a big bowl of chocolate at CWC!

It's not donated, though. One of the staff members started bringing it in, and now, she claims, if she stops she gets yelled at.

I told her that she should stop anyway, and then we'd all miss our chocolate and pitch in. But she hasn't taken my advice yet.

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

that is the nicest thing ever.

[interglossa.livejournal.com]

I was surprised to hear MSPCA and Animal Rescue League are no kill shelters now - I wonder if I have that right. In any case when we got our cats two decades ago there were not so many, and the 'expiration date' was noted on the cage (usually two weeks in those days) which partially influenced our decision. I have read that the fall of capitalism is going to make it much harder for all the animal service organizations which is very, very sad.