So working at the no-kill cat shelter cleaning cat poop is tons better then working at a library. Cats might scratch me or bite me but they don't suck my soul out.
The shelter opens at noon everyday. But the manager doesn't get in until 2. Mostly because she's at the shelter until midnight. Sometimes we have sick kitties that need a lot of attention. But she lives about a quarter mile away, so I wish she would get her so she can take care of people who walk in.
People who walk in either want to adopt a cat or want us to take a cat (their own, a stray, mom cat with kittens, etc). People get annoyed they have to wait. Not my fault, I clean cat shit.
So today I hear people come in and the head cleaner talks to them. I think she tells them the manager will be in at 2. Don't hear why they are hear.
So I go up front to clock out and the woman ask, "can you help us?" Now I only know they are waiting f or the manager, and not wanting to be caught up with stupid people problems (people love giving long stories about how they love cats, then finally tell you they need to dump their cat with us) I say "no". The woman ask if I can get the manager in, the manager was texted but she didn't reply. I say I can't do anything. (I mean, I guess I can text her but if she reads my text she is bound to read the previous text and respond to the first text. I just don't want to be stuck in the middle of this ). They say they want to adopt a cat, give a cat a good home and I open my big mouth and asked if they looked at cats and filled out a form. They say no. So I offer a form.
Woman is talking under her breath about how crappy we are, without a manager there when we are advertised to be open, how we don't want to adopt out cats. How we are rude. How there are other shelters. I'm thinking, "I don't want any of the cats to live with this person. She's going to bitch about all the restrictions we impose, like no declawing, indoor only, the cat has to eat Nurto, the high endish food. No cheap food! Who is the vet? did you pay a pet deposit. Ok, I don't know if she would bitch about it but I don't want to be around someone who is only bitching. So I tell her, "why don't you go to another shelter?"
Yeah, she didn't like that, still bitching, saying we are rude and I'm rude, they are going to leave a negative Yelp review.
Head cleaner says that the manager probably won't let them have a cat. Sounds agiest, but the manager doesn't like to adopt a cat to older people who look like they are about to die. We have cases where a family dump a cat on us because their relative died. And there is a cleaning crew that bring cats to us, because the relatives hire them to clean up the house and the cleaning crew find a cat, ask money from relatives to give to a shelter (us) a donation. So the manager will ask an old person who looks like they are on their last legs (really, people who are in wheelchairs, with a helper, are told by a doctor to get a pet) want to adopt and we want to make sure the cat will have a home when the person dies. One time we got a cat whose owner died and the cat refused to eat and the manager spent so much time force feeding the cat with a tube and finally got the cat to eat. Cat got adopted and the new owners didn't notice it wasn't eating and a month latter they brought him back (instead of taking cat to vet) and manager tried to get him to eat but cat died.
So one of the people who came in was an older man with a walker. Head cleaner thinks the manager won't adopt out the cat. He could have other family that would take care of cat, or a plan. But anyway, glad the door didn't hit her ass out, but I don't like all these people bitching. If they find a cat somewhere else then good for her and him. maybe they will get a cat from a kill shelter.
Earlier today, when we weren't open, woman came in. She was feeding two strays and both had kittens. Sigh, just fix cats when you start feeding them. Don't try to dump kittens on us, this was preventable.
The shelter opens at noon everyday. But the manager doesn't get in until 2. Mostly because she's at the shelter until midnight. Sometimes we have sick kitties that need a lot of attention. But she lives about a quarter mile away, so I wish she would get her so she can take care of people who walk in.
People who walk in either want to adopt a cat or want us to take a cat (their own, a stray, mom cat with kittens, etc). People get annoyed they have to wait. Not my fault, I clean cat shit.
So today I hear people come in and the head cleaner talks to them. I think she tells them the manager will be in at 2. Don't hear why they are hear.
So I go up front to clock out and the woman ask, "can you help us?" Now I only know they are waiting f or the manager, and not wanting to be caught up with stupid people problems (people love giving long stories about how they love cats, then finally tell you they need to dump their cat with us) I say "no". The woman ask if I can get the manager in, the manager was texted but she didn't reply. I say I can't do anything. (I mean, I guess I can text her but if she reads my text she is bound to read the previous text and respond to the first text. I just don't want to be stuck in the middle of this ). They say they want to adopt a cat, give a cat a good home and I open my big mouth and asked if they looked at cats and filled out a form. They say no. So I offer a form.
Woman is talking under her breath about how crappy we are, without a manager there when we are advertised to be open, how we don't want to adopt out cats. How we are rude. How there are other shelters. I'm thinking, "I don't want any of the cats to live with this person. She's going to bitch about all the restrictions we impose, like no declawing, indoor only, the cat has to eat Nurto, the high endish food. No cheap food! Who is the vet? did you pay a pet deposit. Ok, I don't know if she would bitch about it but I don't want to be around someone who is only bitching. So I tell her, "why don't you go to another shelter?"
Yeah, she didn't like that, still bitching, saying we are rude and I'm rude, they are going to leave a negative Yelp review.
Head cleaner says that the manager probably won't let them have a cat. Sounds agiest, but the manager doesn't like to adopt a cat to older people who look like they are about to die. We have cases where a family dump a cat on us because their relative died. And there is a cleaning crew that bring cats to us, because the relatives hire them to clean up the house and the cleaning crew find a cat, ask money from relatives to give to a shelter (us) a donation. So the manager will ask an old person who looks like they are on their last legs (really, people who are in wheelchairs, with a helper, are told by a doctor to get a pet) want to adopt and we want to make sure the cat will have a home when the person dies. One time we got a cat whose owner died and the cat refused to eat and the manager spent so much time force feeding the cat with a tube and finally got the cat to eat. Cat got adopted and the new owners didn't notice it wasn't eating and a month latter they brought him back (instead of taking cat to vet) and manager tried to get him to eat but cat died.
So one of the people who came in was an older man with a walker. Head cleaner thinks the manager won't adopt out the cat. He could have other family that would take care of cat, or a plan. But anyway, glad the door didn't hit her ass out, but I don't like all these people bitching. If they find a cat somewhere else then good for her and him. maybe they will get a cat from a kill shelter.
Earlier today, when we weren't open, woman came in. She was feeding two strays and both had kittens. Sigh, just fix cats when you start feeding them. Don't try to dump kittens on us, this was preventable.
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