Community Service

1. Community Service Community Service By: Lauren Ward by: Lauren Ward

2. Past Community Service • Victory for Victoria Carwash • Victory for Victoria Run • Adopt a child for Christmas • Toys for Tots

3. Why I chose the Lowndes County Pound • I love animals • I know that taking care of animals is hard work and that animal shelters are often understaffed. • I knew that this would be one community service project that I would really enjoy doing.

4. What I had to do: • Clean the cages (included: hosing down the walls and floors, spraying disinfectant on floors and walls, scrub floors and walls and then squeegee water out. • Walk some of the healthy dogs (dogs that are sick cannot go outside.) • Assist customers with dogs that they are interested in. • Bathe dogs that had been adopted. • Do the laundry. • Clean the toys with water and disinfectant. • Mop the floors in visitor rooms. Pugsley, a 4 month old puppy currently at the pound.

5.   *Taken from the Lowndes County Animal Shelter's Website* Animal Services we provide: ~Enforcing Animal Control Ordinances ~Investigating animal abuse and cruelty complaints ~Humanely capturing distressed, nuisance, or dangerous animals ~Sheltering stray and owned pets ~Accept unwanted pets for possible adoption ~Officer healthy pets for adoption ~Humanely euthanizing elderly and ill animals at the owner's request ~Offer Annual Rabies and Microchip Clinics to the Public ~Offer refuge to pets during disaster evacuations, accidents involving the owner and pet, eviction, and while the owner is detained or incarcerated

6. Adoptions! • Dogs: $88-$92 depending on age • Cats: $80 could vary depending on age and medical needs. Not a bad price compared to a pet store Where you pay about $600 for a dog!! This is Sara, a puppy that was adopted while I was working! 

7. Dog Fighting • Dog fighting is an act of cruelty which, unfortunately is still a problem today. • Most of the time, people will take dogs, usually pit bulls, and teach them to attack smaller dogs and even puppies. • If the pit bull does not attack the smaller dog, it is beaten. • Once the fighting dog has practiced on smaller dogs they will move on to a “bait dog”. These bait dogs are other pit bulls of equal size that are usually less aggressive and cannot be used as a fighting dog. The “bait dogs” canine teeth are pulled so that it cannot cause serious damage to the fighting dog. • After the bait dog has been used until it is near death, the owner will either shoot it or dump it somewhere to die. • The fighting dog is then put in a pen with another fighting dog and the two fight until one is dead, or too seriously injured to fight back. • Often, the losing dog will be shot by its owner, out of “embarrassment”. • The Lowndes County Animal Shelter had a ton of posters on how to recognize and prevent dog fighting and other kinds of animal cruelty.

8. Pictures!! A puppy cage with about 5 dogs 2 kittens waiting for adoption

9. I had to squeegee water out of the aisle next to the dog cages.

10. Pulling out the water hose to start spraying down the dog cages to clean them.

11. <~This cat really wanted some attention Me reaching though one of the cages to pet the dogs.

12. The End!!!