The Humane Society facility includes a chapel and meditation garden for owners whose pets have passed away. The shelter also offers grief counseling.
They arrive daily. The lost and the abandoned, the hungry and the hurt, the diseased and the dying. They are the animals…many of them are frightened, many of them are unloved and all of them are yearning for attention – your attention.” – Humane Society brochure.
For years Carolyn Duncan had wanted to work with animals, but it wasn’t until she retired that she found time to seriously consider where and how. Having read that the Humane Society of Vero Beach & Indian River County was always in need of volunteers, she decided to see if they could use her help.
They did, and ever since on Tuesday and Thursday mornings the soft-spoken woman with gentle hands has been caring for the furry residents in “Cat Room A” of the Good Shepherd Haven of Hope Adoption & Education Center.
“It’s so great when you have a cat come in, all scared and trembling, and you start to socialize with it and it responds,” says Duncan, smiling at Joan Lehning, a co-volunteer.
Read the entire article in the March 2007 issue
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