Second Chance Shelter's Voice
Second Chance 
Dec 10, 2013 
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SECOND CHANCE SHELTERS VOICE
From Our Volunteer:
I have been with Second Chance aka Paws Mission for 4years now.The shelter started of with 12 puppies to now over 300 dogs,its not a small figure mind you.We have received numerous SOS from public to help rescue/take in and etc….if its 2years back the shelter will definitely take them in BUT not now.For those who have been to the shelter(now) will know why.The run the shelter with the current “guest” we have right now will easily cost us RM13k to RM15k.Where do we get all this to run the shelter(God knows where) We have to ask the public to donate to help/Run adoption Drive/Fund Raising.And most of the time we barely able to get half the actual expenses.
When you say “I’ve seen a dog….can you take them in?
I can tell you now for sure, We’re sorry we can’t right now.
But its just one dog it doesn’t matter to add another one to the current 300+
Do you know the shelter has very limited space and we are always short of manpower to help on groundwork(cleaning/feeding/bathing the dogs). And do you know we only have 4-5 groundwork team to handle 300+ dogs (its no joke and its tiring)
Their family have been complaining that the ground work team people spend more time in the shelter then at home.Why do they do that?Just because their undying love for this fur kids,that’s why.They are getting thinner and thinner each day and not enough rest.Why?Because there so many irresponsible people dump their dogs or rescued dogs to us each day. Who is going to help us when we help you?
So before you blame us for not helping you,why don’t you do a little bit more, rather than just throw the ball to us. We only depends on public donations. AND ITS NOT EASY TO HANDLE 300+ DOGS IN THE SHELTER.
When you say “I’ve seen a dog….can you take them in?
I can tell you now for sure, We’re sorry we can’t right now.
But its just one dog it doesn’t matter to add another one to the current 300+
Do you know the shelter has very limited space and we are always short of manpower to help on groundwork(cleaning/feeding/bathing the dogs). And do you know we only have 4-5 groundwork team to handle 300+ dogs (its no joke and its tiring)
Their family have been complaining that the ground work team people spend more time in the shelter then at home.Why do they do that?Just because their undying love for this fur kids,that’s why.They are getting thinner and thinner each day and not enough rest.Why?Because there so many irresponsible people dump their dogs or rescued dogs to us each day. Who is going to help us when we help you?
So before you blame us for not helping you,why don’t you do a little bit more, rather than just throw the ball to us. We only depends on public donations. AND ITS NOT EASY TO HANDLE 300+ DOGS IN THE SHELTER.
THANK YOU for taking time to read this post.
From Our Another Volunteer:
Before getting to know about 2nd Chance, I went to volunteer at one of the “bigger” NGOs that I won’t name here.
I was basically told that they have TOO MANY HELPERS, but “if you want to come…I guess you can come since you’re only one person”. That’s the kind of attitude I received, because they really have a lot of helpers. Corporate volunteers on a weekly basis, 3 workers on site every day. The people in charge of the volunteers just sit in the office and do admin stuff. And the volunteer’s work? Walk and bath the dogs.
In 2nd Chance, from the few months I’ve helped out so far, there’s shit to clean, dogs to bath, dogs to feed, more shit to clean. If you don’t think feeding dogs is hardwork, try feeding 300 dogs and making sure they don’t fight.
I don’t see the shelter people do any admin work at the shelter, cos there’s simply no time…all have to do it at home on their own free time. We are humble and only have few hands to help work.
We encourage anybody with intentions of performing long-term volunteer work to come approach us. Most of our senior members are women who are not getting any younger.
THank you for listening to me too!
I was basically told that they have TOO MANY HELPERS, but “if you want to come…I guess you can come since you’re only one person”. That’s the kind of attitude I received, because they really have a lot of helpers. Corporate volunteers on a weekly basis, 3 workers on site every day. The people in charge of the volunteers just sit in the office and do admin stuff. And the volunteer’s work? Walk and bath the dogs.
In 2nd Chance, from the few months I’ve helped out so far, there’s shit to clean, dogs to bath, dogs to feed, more shit to clean. If you don’t think feeding dogs is hardwork, try feeding 300 dogs and making sure they don’t fight.
I don’t see the shelter people do any admin work at the shelter, cos there’s simply no time…all have to do it at home on their own free time. We are humble and only have few hands to help work.
We encourage anybody with intentions of performing long-term volunteer work to come approach us. Most of our senior members are women who are not getting any younger.
THank you for listening to me too!
Source: http://www.pawsmission.com/2013/12/second-chance-shelters-voice.html
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