Hi everyone,
So a quick run down:
I thought I was allergic to cat I had, and relinquished her because my boss said my job performance was suffering, and things needed to change.
So I miss her a lot, and I miss having a cat, so I am trying out volunteering to help other cats, and to see if I really am allergic, or maybe my job situation was the cause of my depression.
So, this weekend I had my first chance to help a rescue group / no kill shelter, and it left me feeling weird:
The reasons:
* There are cat community rooms, 5 rooms, on the top floor, and 2 in the basement. The 2 in the basement only the core volunteers can do anything in, no other reasons given.
* The two core volunteers did not even say anything to me until I cornered them and said hello, and then forced them to acknowledge me
* There are 20 cats per community room, and when I went in to clean and feed, they immediately begin climbing me, meowing like crazy, and purring.
* I had to basically do a lot of the cleaning and feeding with cats permanently stuck on me (which did hurt, but I am not worrying about that).
* The basement had unmarked rooms with other cats in isolated cages, no one would say why, and no explanation on the door, like I would expect like "quarantine area, or treatment area".
So, now I feel weird,
* because the core volunteers seem pretty cold and not wanting any help,
* I feel so sorry for the cats in the community rooms because I felt like they are so attention starved.
So I guess my questions are:
1. is the community rooms --legal--? I guess, or even normal?
2. I just cleaned 5 rooms each with 20 cats, scratching me (not in bad ways), climbing me, love biting me, and generally all over me, and I am not having a reaction other then my eyes were irratated by just the amount of hair in the room. Does that mean I am not allergic?
3. Is it just me, or was it plain weird?
Thanks everyone.
So a quick run down:
I thought I was allergic to cat I had, and relinquished her because my boss said my job performance was suffering, and things needed to change.
So I miss her a lot, and I miss having a cat, so I am trying out volunteering to help other cats, and to see if I really am allergic, or maybe my job situation was the cause of my depression.
So, this weekend I had my first chance to help a rescue group / no kill shelter, and it left me feeling weird:
The reasons:
* There are cat community rooms, 5 rooms, on the top floor, and 2 in the basement. The 2 in the basement only the core volunteers can do anything in, no other reasons given.
* The two core volunteers did not even say anything to me until I cornered them and said hello, and then forced them to acknowledge me
* There are 20 cats per community room, and when I went in to clean and feed, they immediately begin climbing me, meowing like crazy, and purring.
* I had to basically do a lot of the cleaning and feeding with cats permanently stuck on me (which did hurt, but I am not worrying about that).
* The basement had unmarked rooms with other cats in isolated cages, no one would say why, and no explanation on the door, like I would expect like "quarantine area, or treatment area".
So, now I feel weird,
* because the core volunteers seem pretty cold and not wanting any help,
* I feel so sorry for the cats in the community rooms because I felt like they are so attention starved.
So I guess my questions are:
1. is the community rooms --legal--? I guess, or even normal?
2. I just cleaned 5 rooms each with 20 cats, scratching me (not in bad ways), climbing me, love biting me, and generally all over me, and I am not having a reaction other then my eyes were irratated by just the amount of hair in the room. Does that mean I am not allergic?
3. Is it just me, or was it plain weird?
Thanks everyone.