Last spring I trained as a volunteer at the NM Animal Humane Association so
that when Celeste went in on Saturdays to work with the Junior Animal Humane
group there'd be another adult there so that the kids would have a chance to
work with socializing the cats in the Cat Room.  Before that (and Celeste's
been working with this group 3 years now) I always wondered why they only
got to work with socializing the dogs...'cause they never had enough adults
to work with the kids and cats, too.

So, yesterday I had a great time helping for over 2 hours in the Cat Room --
the kids were great with them, the cats really liked the attention, and best
of all, towards the end, a couple of older ladies came in to look at kittens
and I helped them handle them and pick the best one for their needs -- they
came in thinking they only wanted to look at female kittens but went home
with a lovebug little tuxedo boy.  Made my day!  There were also 2 older
kitties that really won my heart --one was a big black tomcat (hadn't been
fixed yet) named Malachite who just purred himself silly and tried to curl
up in my lap (but he overflowed it) and right above him was a gorgeous blue
gray longhair boy who when I picked him up marked me over and over again by
rubbing his chin all over mine -- wah, I could've fallen hard for both of
them.

Christine