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Monday Member Highlight - Karen Ingle
How long have you been a volunteer and what do you do?
I am one of the founding members along with Bonnie Fulton and Nikki Watts, we started out as SPCA volunteers utilizing the Petsmart grant and then going on to start CR PAWS. I am the Foster Coordinator and I am also involved in cat care, trapping and feeding colonies.
- What do you enjoy the most about your particular job?
This is a hard question. I enjoy every facet of volunteering. It is rewarding to see a cat or kitten come into our care that is either very nasty or scared and help them learn to trust humans again, or to rescue kittens that have been born outside or dumped in the bush and to know you saved their lives, or to help find a lost animal and reunite them with their family. I enjoy doing all of this but the most rewarding is when a cat does the switch from fight or flight to trusting you and wanting to be pet. Awe ... that is the moment
- Tell the most memorable situation you have dealt with?
Nikki found a kitten sitting outside a very large storage container so she called for help and we then found 3 more kittens barely alive at the very back underneath the container. We needed to create a pole with a fishing net and grapple hook wrapped with a face cloth, lay on our bellies and slowly pull them out. When we pulled out the first one it was barely alive and with warmth and stimulation we managed to pull it through. They all grew up to be healthy happy kittens.
- What's one different, quirky, unknown, or funny thing about you as a person?
When not busy with CR PAWS I like to walk on a beach, travel, and occasionally knit.
How long have you been a volunteer and what do you do?
I am one of the founding members along with Bonnie Fulton and Nikki Watts, we started out as SPCA volunteers utilizing the Petsmart grant and then going on to start CR PAWS. I am the Foster Coordinator and I am also involved in cat care, trapping and feeding colonies.
- What do you enjoy the most about your particular job?
This is a hard question. I enjoy every facet of volunteering. It is rewarding to see a cat or kitten come into our care that is either very nasty or scared and help them learn to trust humans again, or to rescue kittens that have been born outside or dumped in the bush and to know you saved their lives, or to help find a lost animal and reunite them with their family. I enjoy doing all of this but the most rewarding is when a cat does the switch from fight or flight to trusting you and wanting to be pet. Awe ... that is the moment
- Tell the most memorable situation you have dealt with?
Nikki found a kitten sitting outside a very large storage container so she called for help and we then found 3 more kittens barely alive at the very back underneath the container. We needed to create a pole with a fishing net and grapple hook wrapped with a face cloth, lay on our bellies and slowly pull them out. When we pulled out the first one it was barely alive and with warmth and stimulation we managed to pull it through. They all grew up to be healthy happy kittens.
- What's one different, quirky, unknown, or funny thing about you as a person?
When not busy with CR PAWS I like to walk on a beach, travel, and occasionally knit.
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