Fail again
Jun. 24th, 2025 11:14![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bill_schubertI'm not likely to go back to the shelter. They might need dog walkers but if they do it is in the afternoon and I'm not built to walk a dog in 90+ heat. I went today and found what I had feared. Fifty to 60 dogs build up a lot of cleaning issues. Laundry and bowls and toys. They have two commercial washing machines and two commercial dryers and a three deep sink set up. to wash and sterilize the toys and bowls. There is a lady I met last week who is a volunteer that works there four or five days a week. She is on vacation for a couple of weeks. She does the laundry, cleans the toys and bowls and sorts the donatoins. Laundry is washing, drying, sorting and putting on a shelf. Far as I can see she gets no help of any signficance. There is not a full time staff assigned to the area. Nor was there a plan to have any of it done while she is on vacation.
Surprise. The place was a shitstorm pile of stuff to do. I thought it would be but never thought that no one would be there to work on it. There was not. I put in two hours and made a decent dent that will be completely run over in another 24 hours of dog generated bowls and laundry.
At near the end of the two hours one of the staff who was cominig back to collect clean bowls and toys said thank you. Other than that my existance in two hours went completely unacknowledged by a hello or fuck you or anything.
So I won't be going back I don't think. I can't fix their issues and helping them will only make them think that they don't really have issues.
I hardly even saw a dog.
So it goes.
There was an ADHD test I saw on my phone yesterday. I started to take it but it was too long. True story.
I'm in cool down mode right now. Then shower and I'm not sure what else. Dana has a medical appointment that starts in five minutes. The location is half an hour away. She hasn't left yet. I'm staying in my office. No need to be around that kind of stress.
Surprise. The place was a shitstorm pile of stuff to do. I thought it would be but never thought that no one would be there to work on it. There was not. I put in two hours and made a decent dent that will be completely run over in another 24 hours of dog generated bowls and laundry.
At near the end of the two hours one of the staff who was cominig back to collect clean bowls and toys said thank you. Other than that my existance in two hours went completely unacknowledged by a hello or fuck you or anything.
So I won't be going back I don't think. I can't fix their issues and helping them will only make them think that they don't really have issues.
I hardly even saw a dog.
So it goes.
There was an ADHD test I saw on my phone yesterday. I started to take it but it was too long. True story.
I'm in cool down mode right now. Then shower and I'm not sure what else. Dana has a medical appointment that starts in five minutes. The location is half an hour away. She hasn't left yet. I'm staying in my office. No need to be around that kind of stress.