Mondays

Mondays are so quiet - it's the day when all the staff are in but we're not open to the public. It's a chance to do some deep down cleaning and move through the shelter without bumping into people. I walked the halls for an hour this morning trying to figure out why it looked different - the hallway runners had been taken outside to be washed. Too bad we can't just leave the floors bare - to much of a slipping hazard.

The clinic is busy though. They have two days worth of adoptions, Friday and Saturday, to get ready for pick-up. I see lots of animals go out the front door with their new families on Mondays. Two young, beautiful, healthy pit mixes went home with two young men. I couldn't help but walk out of my office to tell them to take good care of these two babies, feed them, love them and no fighting.

Sometimes we just take a deep breath and believe in the basic goodness of people. Sometimes we're disappointed but we're rewarded with a good outcome for the people and the animals often enough to keep trying. That's what we must do, keep trying.