The previous time I participated in one of the service trips after school on a Wednesday afternoon seemed to go relatively well. So, in the second semester of grade twelve I thought it would be a good idea to do another one of these trips. This time I wanted to do something a little bit different, so I decided to sign up for the KSPCA service trip. This trip would consist of going with a group of students to the KSPCA to help feed, clean and take care of the abandoned or injured animals sheltered there.
Fortunately for this service trip, one of my close friends also joined up which meant that this time I actually had someone to talk to while on the trip. The first time we went, the administration at the KSPCA split all the students into three different groups. The group I was in was taken to the dog kennels. There, we helped distribute and feed all the dogs that were there. While we were helping, one of the workers there told us all about the different dogs that were sheltered in those specific kennels. There were a few big black dogs that had only come in a few days earlier, who would have seemed intimidating if not for their immense shyness. All of the dogs there each had their own story, their own history, not all of them good.
After we fed the dogs, we were given a tour around the other kennels as well. The KSPCA has a lot of different animals including pigs and donkeys in addition to the usual cats and dogs. Near the end of our trip we were allowed into one of the larger cat enclosures. We were then allowed to play with and name a couple of the cats that were there. One of the cats that we named was a small grey kitten, we called him Jumper.
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