I spent the day volunteering with First Coast No More Homeless Pets, which works tirelessly to end the needless killing of pets in Jacksonville and surrounding areas. They create awareness and operate a spay/neuter clinic 6 days a week, offering low cost procedures. In the past the clinic was only for feral cats, but has now been expanded to include pet cats and dogs. I usually help the animals recover after surgery, cleaning around the incision area, cleaning out ears, and watching to make sure they are breathing and wake up o.k. Most of the day I was on the floor with the dogs, rubbing them to stimulate them to wake up, and comforting them when they first wake up, and taking their airway tubes out.
This is Nacho, cuddled up to another sleeping dog while recovering.
Two feral kittens waking up from surgery. Feral kittens can be tamed and are usually adopted into homes after they're fixed. Adults get their left ear "tipped"- cut off the very top-doesn't bother them at all - that way Animal Care and Control knows that they are fixed and being taken care of, and they will not be taken in again to be fixed. Basically a "feral" cat is one that is living outside and not tamed, versus a stray who is socialized to people but doesn't have a home.
I spent the day volunteering with First Coast No More Homeless Pets, which works tirelessly to end the needless killing of pets in Jacksonville and surrounding areas. They create awareness and operate a spay/neuter clinic 6 days a week, offering low cost procedures. In the past the clinic was only for feral cats, but has now been expanded to include pet cats and dogs. I usually help the animals recover after surgery, cleaning around the incision area, cleaning out ears, and watching to make sure they are breathing and wake up o.k. Most of the day I was on the floor with the dogs, rubbing them to stimulate them to wake up, and comforting them when they first wake up, and taking their airway tubes out.
This is Nacho, cuddled up to another sleeping dog while recovering.
Two feral kittens waking up from surgery. Feral kittens can be tamed and are usually adopted into homes after they're fixed. Adults get their left ear "tipped"- cut off the very top-doesn't bother them at all - that way Animal Care and Control knows that they are fixed and being taken care of, and they will not be taken in again to be fixed. Basically a "feral" cat is one that is living outside and not tamed, versus a stray who is socialized to people but doesn't have a home.
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