Meghan-3/7/09-Animal Haven

Today we went to Animal Haven again.  We first cleaned the cats cages which was problemic, but we eventually figured it out. We had to give them new food and water and throw out the cat litter. A couple of cats did not want get out of the litter boxes. When we tried to pick them up so that we could empty the litter, they would go crazy. I guess cats have something about sitting in poop. We finally found a way to get them out of the litter box which was to simply dump them out and take the litter box or pick them up and take the litter really quickly before they started scratching, then put them back in and close the cage. I was surprised at the amount of cats who had leukemia. There was a whole room full of them. We had to be careful not to use a sponge on the food or water bowls for them because it made them more sick for some reason that we didn’t really understand. After we finished cleaning all of the cat cages, we started to walk Bella, a dog owned by animal planet. She was there because they film a show about dogs there. She tried to walk into every open door and walked started jumping on every person we walked by. She was very strong for a little dog. We couldn’t walk any other dogs because they were either too strong for us to walk as new volunteers or had already been walked. We walked back with Bella and then left.