The project that I did was similar to an Angel Tree. The difference was I used cats and dogs instead of needy kids. To start off the project, I traced a circle onto colored construction paper and cut them out so that they represented the ball Christmas tree ornaments. For the project, I went to the shelter and got pictures of 17 different cats and dogs that were available for adoption. With those pictures I also got a description of the animal: age, breed, sex, and temperament. Then I had to put all that info together. I put all the pictures together and e-mailed them to the shelter so they could use the pictures if they wanted to. I went through all the pictures I took and chose the best one of each animal. I then had to resize the picture to about 2 inches by 2.5 inches. With the resized pictures, I typed up the descriptions of the animals and had to make sure they would fit in a space of about 2 inches by 2.5 inches. I then e-mailed all this info to the shelter to make sure it was ok with them and that all the info was correct. After that I had to print and cut out each of the pictures and descriptions of the animals. With the cut outs, I pasted the picture of each animal onto one side of the cut out ball ornaments and glued the description of the animal onto the other side. After that, I used clear packing tape to cover the ornaments so that they would not get torn or so that if they got wet for whatever reason the ink wouldn't smudge and smear. With all of these ornaments I made a poster board that explained what I was trying to do. I also put information about the shelter and what they do. There was info on adopting, donations, volunteering, and a general overall info of the shelter (such as location and hours). This probably doesn't sound like too much work...but when you do it 6 times, it really is. I made 6 different copies of all of this to be in 6 different places throughout town. Doing this project is pretty much what I spent all of my free-time over break doing...the time when I wasn't working at the vet office. I did end up adopting one of the dogs though. He's cool. He's an Australian cattle dog mix that's about 5 months old. He's so cute. The problem with working at a vet office that sees animals from the shelter and then going to help the shelter can be a good and bad thing...especially when you like animals...you end up bringing a lot of them home. (I have 5 dogs, 4 cats, 3 chickens, 2 horses, and a few fish.)
That's my new puppy. :) Isn't he cute? The shelter had his name Danny, but I didn't like it too much so I changed it to Saturn.I was able to get away from work and the shelter project and hang out with some friends from back at home 2 times. It was nice and a lot of fun seeing them again. I haven't seen them since July and I've known them since elementary school.
Thanksgiving diner was great. My mom cooked, and let me tell you what, she is an excellent cook! :) I definitely was beginning to miss home cooked food. The dining hall food is good, but it's only so good and my cooking isn't the best. I slept half of Thanksgiving day though since I was so tired from working and everything. I was luckily not one of the people that had to go into the vets office to check up on the animals and take care of them. Oh, speaking of animals at the vets. we had a dog come in that had swallowed a bouncy ball and gotten it stuck in its intestines. We also had some complete idiot (to put it nicely) come in with a litter of puppies. The litter originally had 15 puppies in it. 7 of them had died in the week before the owner brought them into the office. The owner brought in the 6 puppies that he had left (some of them died soon after birth or in the few short weeks that can't really be called a life). He brought them in by putting them in the back of his pick up truck, not in a crate or tied or anything, just flying around in the bed of the truck. We ended up keeping one of the puppies and warming it up and giving it fluids subcutaneously (under the skin is what that translates into). The puppy was so cold from sitting in the back of the pick and living outside in the 30 and 40 degree weather that when we first took its temperature we couldn't get the thermometer off the "L". When we finally did get its temperature to read it was at 89 degrees Fahrenheit. The temperature of a dog is supposed to be around 101.5 degrees Fahrenheit to give you a reference point. The owner took the rest of the 5 puppies back home int eh bed of his pick up truck. When he arrived home he called us to tell us that he lost one of the puppies. He didn't mean that it had died. He quite literally lost the dog. He only counted 4 puppies when he got home....the 5th puppy went flying out of his pick up truck somewhere along the way home. We called animal control on him. Welcome to Idiotsville, population: 1.
That pretty much sums up my break. I didn't do anything that was related to school. I thought "hey, this is a break from school, I'm not bringing anything home that has to do with school and I'm not going to work on any assignments that might be due soon (such as the portfolio) while I'm on break". And that is why I'm working on writing a lot of blogs now. :)
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