Hi everyone
This blogpost is about volunteering at the local pet shelter in Grenada, the GSPCA. We woke up to a gloomy rainy Wednesday and got ready to go to the shelter. We were supposed to go from 8:30am to 12:00 noon. Soon, the rain turned into a downpour (if you went outside you would be soaked in seconds). But the puppies were waiting, so we got on our rain jackets and climbed into our dinghy. We arrived at the dock in a couple of minutes and walked up a short hill to get to the shelter. We walked in and the office manager brought us to a back room. Since it was down pouring we couldn’t walk dogs. Instead, a volunteer named Allie, asked if we wanted to bathe puppies. Of course we did! We were all super excited to bathe and cuddle these cute 5 week old puppies! So, Lucy and I went back with Allie to get some puppies—they were so adorable! Mom bathed them and we started to cuddle them in blankets to warm them up. There were 5 litters of puppies that we took care of. There was the Winnie the Pooh litter, the Rock litter, the Toy Story litter, among others!
Outside, the rain was still pouring down. Allie told us that there was a leaky roof over some puppies, so Fenton and I then went and started cuddling and playing with those pups. Once they were all sleeping, we rejoined the rest of the family in the bathing room.
Allie brought in some older puppies (about 12 weeks and much bigger than the new babies). They were muddy dirty from playing outside. We gave them all baths and mom started playing with them in their exercise pen. Heidi and Fenton went to play with the bigger dogs in the outdoor pen. Lucy and I went back to the leaky roof pen to dry off some more pups. About 20 minutes later, all the work was done and we felt that we were getting in the way, so it was time to go. We started walking back to our dinghy but the rain had not calmed down at all! Our dinghy was so low in the water since it was full of rain . Dad got the water out, picked us up and we headed back to our boat. Once we got back to our boat, we took off our raincoats (that didn’t do much good), dried off and put on clean clothes, and made soup and tea! So excited to go back next Wednesday! Hopefully in better weather.
💕Sally💕