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