Sophie-2/16/09-Animal Haven

This past Thursday, on February 12th, Meghan, Edith, Anna and I went to Animal Haven, an organization that houses stray cats and dogs. Animal Haven is a small shelter so they cannot take in every animal, but they do make sure that every animal has a place to go. For our first day we got lost on the way there and we came in late! When we arrived everyone was nice and they introduced us to Kendra, the volunteer coordinator. We had contacted Kendra through phone and email, but it was our first time meeting her face to face. Kendra was great and extremely welcoming, we sat down with her and we discussed the goals for our project, what is was and what we wanted to accomplish.  She showed us around all the rooms explaining what we could do as we walked around (walking dogs, socializing with cats and dogs, creating signs, doing paperwork, feeding the animals, doing laundry and many other things). We met the dogs and cats and everyone working there. She explained to us how Animal Haven is a nonprofit organization and the shop on the ground floor, is what supports their animals. Everything you buy is basically feeding their animals. We said our goodbyes and we left we were beaming with excitement for our next visit.