Working at KAPS

Last week, Aaron and I spent our Saturday at the local animal shelter (KAPS) in Daegu. We went to the dog shelter, which is on the 3rd and 4th floor of a building. One of the veteran volunteers, Emma, met us outside at 10am and we proceeded to go upstairs to start the day. Our first task was finding a shaggy dog, or at least one that required clipping so that Emma could show us how to clip. The first dog Emma chose was a shih tzu. It had to have its rear end shaved, then got washed and then was fully clipped if needed (mainly around its ears). Aaron and I then chose a schnauzer (the label on her cage said yorkie, but it wasn't). It was quite hairy around its ears and had a bobby tail @_@ I felt somewhat bad because it was so happy to see us and then we ended up washing and shaving its tail off. Emma had to shave the rest of the tail because I somehow managed to clip it into a broom shape -.-;
We eventually ended up with a brown maltese puppy, which was surprisingly cute. She was a real scaredy cat when it came to anything but hugs. Unfortunately, she had an extreme case of mites to the point where she would cry out as she constantly scratched her ears and paws. I felt so bad for her and we had run out of something called BioKill (used to kill insects and mites), so Emma put shampoo on her ears until we came back from lunch with Sunnan, the woman from the cat shelter, who gave us some powder to help against the mites and brought a botel of Biokill. We had to wash the puppy and its cagemate (who was starting to get it too), and she kept crying as we washed her. The entire time! Not only that, but she also tried to lick the shampoo~ She was a crazy puppy :P Aaron sat with her in his lap in front of the heating fan while Emma combed the mites out of her ears. She eventually burrowed in Aaron's lap and tried to sleep while randomly jerking up to bite a leg or scratch an ear.
After we put her back, we decided to walk some of the larger dogs. There were two jindos, an afghan, and an oversexed cocker spaniel. I walked the larger of the two jindo dogs (they look a bit like shiba inus @_@) and she was really cute. Well, until we walked outside and she took a giant poop in the parking lot. Aaron was walking the afghan, but it was too skinny and managed to escape its lead, so once Emma caught it, she decided to walk it. We walked around Duryu park, but it was really crowded for a Saturday. There was some sort of event going on at the cultural center. Aaron's new dog (the smaller jindo), had runny issues, so apparently it was leaking randomly during the entire walk. A random man walked up to me and said something along the lines of "mal upda", but I had no clue what he was talking about, so like I always do, I smiled at him and walked away. However, he followed me and eventually caught up to Emma and was talking to her. She managed to figure out that he said the dog was bleeding or something (the female dogs were in heat). He continued to follow us until we found Sunnan. She said that he wanted to take the dog home with him. When she told him she was afraid he would eat the dog, he promised he would eat other dogs, but not this one @__@
Coming back from the walk, our job was to wash my jindo while Emma and the other volunteer shaved down a yorkshire terrier that looked like it had gone through a washing machine. Our job was quite difficult as the jindo did not seem to like water. It was getting quite chilly (it was around 5:30 by then), so we decided to end early and just pick out all the thorns from its coat. By the time we had finished, it had random blotches of white where the shampoo had worked, but other parts of it were still grey. Maybe next time we'll get to it fully....