While most high school students are cramming for finals, New Tech High gave us the opportunity to spend a stress-free day helping local businesses in Napa. As soon as I saw that Whiskers Tails & Ferals was an option, I immediately signed up. Whiskers Tails and Ferals is an all-volunteer organization that rescues hundreds of cats and dogs in Napa County each year. They foster animals with great love and care until they can find forever homes for them and nurse them back to health if they are maltreated or ill. They are making a significant impact on the tragedy of pet overpopulation in Napa County. Originally, I was under the impression that the group of 13 students who were going and I would be spending the whole day in a tiny cramped room that smelled like cat poop and not have anything to do. I had no idea what was yet to come. When we first arrived we split into 3 groups and worked at 3 stations: cleaning and organizing a humongous storage pod, sewing, and cleaning the cat room. My group's first station was cleaning "the pod." The pod was a huge storage pod that hadn't EVER been cleaned and it was an absolute mess. After pitching in we all got it done:) Although I found cleaning the pod gross, I got the opportunity to hold kittens that were just a week old and it made up for all the work we had done in the end.
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AuthorHibah Shafi is a Senior at New Technology High School. Archives
May 2019
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