Beauty & the Beasts

Authors: Janice Kay Johnson, Anne Weale

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“Jean and the four volunteers met once a month at the shelter; ordered a pizza and discussed successes, failures and the direction they were going.Today’s meeting was held in Joan’s kitchen; everyone munched on veggie pizza, talked in quick bursts between bites and laughed frequently.Madeline finished a slice while listening to another volunteer talk about a conflict with the manager of a store where they’d been holding adoption days. They agreed on a possible solution. In the lull afterward she... said, “Joan, I don’t know that I even told you about a promising conversation I had this week.”Heads turned her way. “A woman who’d called to see if we could take an older cat—Sophy, the beautiful white short-hair who came yesterday— turns out to head a hospice organization. They provide nursing care and meals to terminally ill patients who are still in their homes. Sophy belonged to a young man with AIDS who recently died and had no one willing to take the cat. This woman—Maria Garcia—says that pretty regularly they’re left having to place pets.MoreLess Read More Read Less