Excerpt from:
The Longest Walk: A Day In The Life Of A Humane Society Employee
by Teri Campbell
Executive Director, Harrison County Humane Society
Copyright 1998 Hugs for Homeless Animals All Rights Reserved.

It is Wednesday afternoon. I make my weekly walk through our shelter and contemplate the number of animals we’ll be able to bring in here tomorrow. Four cages in the dog’s kennel area, two in the isolation room and three empty cat cages are available. Depending on the size of the available dogs, it appears as though we’ll have nine to thirteen openings this week. We’ve had several adoptions in the last few days and are lucky to have this much space available. It’s never enough though. If every single cage were open it would still not be enough. There are always more unwanted animals than we can house.

It’s Thursday morning now. A morning like every other morning except for the weekly task that looms before me every Thursday. You see, part of my job is to go to the Harrison County Animal Control Center and “choose” animals there to take to our Humane Society Shelter — animals scheduled to die on Friday morning — more animals than we have room for.

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