Pets In Need Refelction for Visit 3

Julian Garcia-Mendez
8:00 AM-12:00 PM on Wednesday, August 12th, 2015
Pets in Need
Terry Mendez
Cell: (650)283-2102
Work: (650)367-1405

Pets in Need (PIN) is the first shelter in the state of California to be a non-kill shelter. One of the big things that makes PIN stand out amongst other shelters, is that they offer free Spay and Neuter. This ties in to my main Social Injustice which is Animal Abuse. One of the big parts of animal abuse, is over population.

Overpopulation of shelters is a huge problem, because most shelters aim to get save a lot of dogs. However, shelters end up euthanizing or killing dogs if they aren't adopted in a certain time window.
Being a No-Kill shelter means that all the animals that the shelter receives will never be euthanized. Going into the project, I knew that I was going to be working with animals. However, I wasn't quite sure what I would be doing to solve my social injustice. However, I soon learned that I would help prep tools packs for surgery, by cleaning the tools, sanitizing them and then wrapping them to be ready for the following days surgery. By being there I helped the technicians and doctors have all hands on deck, and allowed them to work as hard and efficiently as they could. Over the first 3 days, we spayed and neutered around 50 cats and dogs.