Social Media & Writing Internship at Andersonville Animal Shelter

This landed on my radar today and although I can't fit it in to my life right now (though I did consider it), I wanted to help spread the word for this most worthy cause. If you live in the vicinity of Elgin, IL and love animals, social media and spending your time amassing boatloads of good karma check out their internship opportunity (interviews being immediately).

Comments

[Peter]

I thought seriously about this for a few minutes today. Since I spent most of my life in institutional PR, it could be right up my alley. They'd get professional help for free and I'd get to do a furry mitzvah. Then I took a look at their Web site and newsletter. I can barely stand to read emotional dog stories on your blog... much less write them!

Professionals aren't supposed to get all weepy over their work.

[Laura]

Oh gosh I KNOW it! I have several times thought about volunteering at a shelter (before realizing that managing that with my own girl here would make that a little nuts) but I REALLY question whether I have the heart for it. I had the same reaction to the site, and made the mistake of looking at the "Young at Heart" section. I wanted to clone myself a time or two and take both those dogs home. I have absolutely ZERO clinical distance where dogs are concerned.

[Kevin Moriarity]

My wife volunteered there for quite a while. It's amazing we don't have a small zoo here at home. It takes quite a bit of strength to work there I think.

[Laura]

Wow. That is awesome. God bless her for it, man. It is so needed. I come from a small zoo family (five dogs at one time, plus 8 birds, fish, lizards...). As I realize it now, we fostered a lot of animals, too. We didn't call it that back then but we took in a lot of strays over the years or animals guys would bring to my Dad's workplace since he was St. Francis, and he'd help find homes for them while we kept them at our house. It was a pretty chaotic house but this was in the days that dogs and kids all ran around our neighborhood together like one big pack, playing in the sandlot and fishing and stuff. It was a great childhood like that. All the dogs kind of belonged to all the kids that played together. At least it felt that way. It really was a pack. So seeing a packless dog who needs a home...just feels so inherently wrong to me to not bring it in. If Penny wasn't clearly a "one dog home" kind of a dog, I could get in trouble...

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As I realize it now, we fostered a lot of animals, too.