The shelter where I work took in 694 animals last year. Every day, we face animal cruelty – and communicating the crisis can feel impossible.
Monday mornings at the Mendocino Coast Humane Society, the northern California animal shelter where I work part-time, are chaotic.
The frenzied beeping of anesthesia monitoring equipment echoes as I dodge Coco, one of the resident shelter cats with a penchant for ankles, and tiptoe... read more