I chose to volunteer at the Humane Society of Camden County (HSCC) for my SAE, when given the project in the begininng of the year. Projects that fall under the placement category, are ones in which you go and get hands on experience as a helper to someone above you. So, my project of volunteering at the HSCC under the authority of those who work there, falls under the placement category for SAE projects. Throughout the process of my project, I had some great experiences. I also gained lots of skills and learned a bunch of valuable lessons. Overall, I enjoyed the time I put into this project by voulunteering.
While volunteering, I had a couple different jobs to do. These jobs include cat cuddling, dog walking, and play time coordinator for dogs. Cat cuddling, being exactly what it sounds like, was simply spending time with the cats at the shelter. This can mean playing with them, cuddling with them, grooming them, or even just letting them out of their kennel for a little while. But, by giving these cats a little of my time, I am making their lives a little easier. The job as cat cuddler helps reduce their stress and socializes them, which helps them get adopted in the long run.
I also worked with the dogs at the shelter. The job of …show more content…
These skills include animal handling, learning the importance of paitence, and learning to stay calm in stressful situations. These skills will help me further along the path towards my future as a veterinarian. The lessons I learned while volunteering were how resposibility and time management are key to being successful, how working with animals can be very difficult, but is very rewarding, how volunteer work is very important to the community and those in it, and how even the littlest things you do for an animal can have the biggest impacts in their lives. Each of these life lessons are very important, and gave me a new out look on
While volunteering, I had a couple different jobs to do. These jobs include cat cuddling, dog walking, and play time coordinator for dogs. Cat cuddling, being exactly what it sounds like, was simply spending time with the cats at the shelter. This can mean playing with them, cuddling with them, grooming them, or even just letting them out of their kennel for a little while. But, by giving these cats a little of my time, I am making their lives a little easier. The job as cat cuddler helps reduce their stress and socializes them, which helps them get adopted in the long run.
I also worked with the dogs at the shelter. The job of …show more content…
These skills include animal handling, learning the importance of paitence, and learning to stay calm in stressful situations. These skills will help me further along the path towards my future as a veterinarian. The lessons I learned while volunteering were how resposibility and time management are key to being successful, how working with animals can be very difficult, but is very rewarding, how volunteer work is very important to the community and those in it, and how even the littlest things you do for an animal can have the biggest impacts in their lives. Each of these life lessons are very important, and gave me a new out look on