Celebration Station Virtual Tour... continued

 

My virtual tour continues on around the building.  We last left off with Red and his little area where everyone showed some love to the precious Pibble.

In the area to the left of Red was a large caged pen.  The grumpy occupant was terrified, tired, rarely heard and would very rarely come to the front of the cage for a head scratch or a hand lick.  The occupant's name was Whisperer Al.  Talk about a story!  All the babies that came through Celebration Station had a story... all too common of the pets that were left behind either by their people that were forced to do so or by their people that thought it just wasn't going to get as bad as it did.  Whisperer Al came to be at Celebration Station and Best Friends due to a dead dog report.

I'm not sure about Al's beginnings as to WHY he was left AND left in the condition that he was.  This beauty of a shy, withdrawn boy was left chained to a very huge tree in his back yard.  The tree toppeled over in the storm and Al was able to find refuge in the large hole the trunk left in the ground. 

Cari, the aforementioned volunteer coordinator... you remember, the one that brought her dog and then adopted one?  Well, she also adopted Whisperer Al, which was later named Frank.  Like so many there, I fell in love with Al too.

http://network.bestfriends.org/groups/hurricane/news/archive/2006/01/26/whisperer-al.aspx

http://network.bestfriends.org/groups/hurricane/15218/news.aspx

The only dogs kept inside were either in the intake or the infirmary area.  The rest of the sooo many were kept in the kennels and runs outside.  I'll get to that later as well. 

THIS was an important sign for everyone to see as there was just one for the entire bottom floor:

The Cat Area

On to the next main area on the lower level of the building.  I'd like to walk back through the cat area.  This was an AMAZINGLY organized, clean, volunteer-filled area.  The vets and the vet techs that so generously gave their time were amazing!  They all stayed for so long... many, many months until the Station closed down.