Byline Animal Shelter Volunteer Application Made Easy

Byline animal shelter volunteer application

hey y'all so I just wanted to do a little intro to this video so I'm currently at the Gulf Coast Humane Society which is located in Fort Myers Florida which is like also like Southwest Florida so it's basically the Humane Society for all of like Lee County Collier County glades County I think that's what it is so it's a really important part of our community and I've started volunteering here as like a dog walker so I kind of wanted to show you guys what I do when I come here and how like rewarding and like how if you bond with these dogs so quickly and they it's honestly like I feel like it helps me more than I'm helping them it really just gives me the sense of calmness and happiness that I like literally haven't found anywhere else and it's just I'm so happy that I can do something to give back to these dogs because they've come from either horrible homes they were living on the street they were just treated wrong and spending a little bit of time with them literally makes them feel so loved and you can just see it on their faces so I'm gonna take you along with me today let you meet some of the dogs kind of show you what I do and yeah I hope you guys enjoy this because it's really important to me and you know I think it's important to let people know that there are places like this where they can go and volunteer all you have to do is search your local humane society and it's honestly not that hard to get involved you just have to take like - at least at ours you just have to take two courses just for your like your safety because these dogs have been through so much so you need to learn like how to handle them properly but it's honestly so rewarding and I recommend doing this for anybody so yeah let's just go ahead and get into the building and get some dogs on their walks medication so 30-minute walk through the total sum you she'sa copies would be on the first drop in the morning this is why it's so important but she hasn't been out all night so angels trying to train so they hold it in this is Dylan he actually has a limp right now so if you noticed that but apparently he's been getting better but I just brought him into the playpen to kind of stretch his legs and everything he's super sweetie aren't you doing these are so excited like mega boots I'm like I came in nobody's a sweetie he's exploring he loves treats yeah you do don't you you still happy big boy they just need some love this is the best day ever are you seeking the China my nose [Music] you're just going for a nice walk aren't we buddy all right we but oh right now I thank you for the keys the keys thank you hey big guy you want yours Oh handsome all right let's go I love this dog so sweet look at this sweet love bug all they want is my heart is melting my vintage so this is one of the other like caged-in plate areas that you can take the dogs to its really nice and shady and down in Florida that really comes in handy so yeah I'm in here with Sasha Sasha baby girl look at the arrow she's a sweetheart yeah you want to say hello yeah do you want the tennis ball I think she just wants me for my treats you know you want to say hello I think she was bonded with someone but they got it not me you want ball do you want the boss Scoob he's sit for me good boy go kitty he'll run back over here but he won't give me the ball he just loves to lay behind here Oh were you gonna drop I thought you were gonna drop it he's so sweet he just has so much energy and he loves to balance and run around like look how happy he is scooby-doo that's all he wants he wants you to throw him that tennis ball and then sit there and let him lay outside and she want it for 30 minutes that's happened to him it's so simple honestly there's so many of these dogs that I wish that I could take home with me but I don't have a fenced-in backyard and I feel like a lot in backyards just to have that extra precaution and like that freedom because some of them don't do well with other dogs so they really either need to be with a dog one dog they like or by themselves you know and having a fenced-in yard is nice because you can just let them play ball with them and let them roll around and they're great dogs they love humans they love all humans that I've noticed it's just some kind they've had bad history some of them have scratches all over their mouths some of them have been beaten and oh he thinks I'm gonna take the ball buddy you better give me that ball but yeah it's really hard it's hard to see y'all scratches all over their faces and like [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] well three hours later I've been here since 9 o'clock it's 12:15 we finally got all the dogs walked at least once for the day it's kind of sad though because like in the dream world they would get to go out four to five times a day but in reality they're only going out two to three because it's summer and a lot of volunteers that are older go home in Florida like they leave Florida for the summertime and they don't come back until like December but you know and as much as I want to stay and keep going it's like let me see it's got to be like 95 degrees outside it is so hot I've probably just walked 15 to 20 dogs I don't know exactly how many but me and two other girls finished one whole section of like put this place called clubhouse in a place called Cove and they're like Cove is filled with like usually like quieter type dogs and Clubhouse is a little bit rowdy err so I like to try to be more involved in Clubhouse just because more people tend to be intimidated by how loud and crazy and you know how kind of like confrontational dogs can be towards each other but I mean that's just how you know a lot of dogs are brought up and I mean if they don't know better than they don't know better but I'm really tired I'm really hot but I feel good I love seeing those dogs they make me so happy I've really bonded with a lot of them this is like so much traffic I was gonna wing it I'm sorry you guys but it's like I've said it's so rewarding but the way like the way that it works there I wasn't able to film as many I wasn't able to film all the dogs like so some of the dogs are on heartworm medications because they have heart worms and when they're on heartworm medication they can only be walking to pressure for periods of times and like their heart rate is not allowed to rise because they can get sick and it's just not good for them between the medication and the heartworms but in florida is a huge problem because they get bit by mosquitos that have heartworm in florida so ha so rainy during the summertime the mosquitoes are just it's just a way of life honestly down here it's just part of living down here so a lot of dogs do it but they go through treatment and they eventually come off a treatment because they no longer have heart worms but the good thing about Gulf Coast humane society is that they actually treat the animals for free so say you want to adopt a dog that has heart worms if you want to bring them home and like adopt them and like take care of the way they need hero because I mean those dogs are still sweethearts they're normal dogs they're perfectly fine they're just undergoing treatment for heartworms but the Humane Society will continue to treat them for free so you just bring them up there whenever they get their new rounds of dosage for the heartworm medication and yeah and they'll take care of for free that you don't have to pay for that which is really nice so but yeah there's definitely dogs I've bonded with and I really really would love to adopt I'm I really wish I had my own house with a fenced-in yard so I could bring some of these dogs home because it just breaks my heart honestly like I I don't understand this is why they need more volunteers though this is why more people need to you know take the time to help come take care of these dogs it's so important and they they need it they've been you know abandoned they've been beaten they've been you know fighting dogs like it's not right it's our job to take care of them and it's our job to make them safe and to give them better lives and honestly you get more out of it in the end because they the love and attention they give you and they want from you it's like it's unlike anything I can explain and it kind of makes me want to cry but it's okay because I know I'm doing what I can to help them I'm only probably gonna be able to come two or three days a week once summer starts because it's full-time work but I'm gonna be here because it's important and you know it's important for y'all to reach out to your local humane societies and see what you can do to help because they need help you know they're doing everything they like that they can and they're stretched then and it's for such a good cause and yeah I just job any questions about like volunteering at a dog shelter or like you know if you have questions about Gulf Coast I mean Society say you live around here and you want to start volunteering feel free to reach out to me I would love to get as many people on board with this place as possible because like I said it's summertime and they don't have that many volunteer they need an open they deserve help because there's such a great organization and yeah I love you guys so much I know this video was completely different and you're like Dental Assisting what like these about dogs like besides I'm assisting I'm obsessed with dogs that's just who I am I hope you guys enjoyed it I love you guys so much and don't forget to enter my giveaway I'm giving away 100 our gift card the entries closed next Thursday at 12 a.m. so it'll be Friday when I announce it I'll post a video next Friday but yeah everyone go enter that the rules are there I love you guys so much and I'll see you in my next video bye