| Winter is coming to a close and you wait in | | | | big, animal that's managed to get themselves |
| anticipation as spring draws nearer, because | | | | trapped inside somewhere within your house or |
| with the advent of spring summer's not that | | | | garden, perhaps a minor disaster or two to |
| far away. It's a mixed blessing however, | | | | cope with, but overall only slight insanity |
| since during the long winter months your work | | | | will reign within the walls of the animal |
| at the animal shelter can only be considered | | | | shelter. |
| as slightly insane. With summer on the way | | | | |
| though, you and your coworkers will have your | | | | That all changes however the minute springs |
| work cut out for you. That's the time when | | | | blows in. From almost that point onward the |
| your "only slightly insane" workload turns | | | | animal shelter will gear up towards full |
| into the full fledged pull-out-your-hair kind | | | | blown insanity status in preparation for all |
| of insanity. | | | | the emergencies and disasters that all seem |
| | | | to befall the animal and bird population |
| You like your job at the animal shelter, | | | | during these few months. |
| there's no two words about that, but at times | | | | |
| it can get overwhelmingly hectic. And most of | | | | That's when the calls starting rolling in and |
| the time that's an understatement, "Hectic" | | | | all our units at the animal shelter are kept |
| is too calm a word to describe life at the | | | | constantly busy going back and forth between |
| animal shelter, especially when the heyday of | | | | emergencies. They're almost all the same type |
| summer sets in. During the winter months at | | | | of calls year in and year out like, "Help, |
| least all you really need to do is look after | | | | there's a large bird stuck in my flue", or |
| the many inhabitants of the animal shelter | | | | perhaps "I'm sure there's a family of beavers |
| and try to make them as comfortable as you | | | | trying to nest in the crawlspace above me." |
| possibly can. | | | | |
| | | | One of the best calls that the animal shelter |
| If there are any sick or injured birds or | | | | has gotten however was when one man called us |
| animals you'll need to look after them, and | | | | frantically to say that a family of squirrels |
| if you get a call from a hysterical person | | | | had taken over his wife's underwear drawer |
| who's sure there's a family of bears | | | | and stolen each and every pair of expensive |
| hibernating in their barn, then you'll need | | | | lingerie to line their nest. She was coming |
| to go check that out. But really that's about | | | | back home tomorrow and could we please get |
| it. A few calls to take out some small, or | | | | all the underwear back from the squirrels! |