The shelter where I work took in 694 animals last year. Every day, we face animal cruelty – and communicating the crisis can feel impossible
This piece was commissioned with the support of the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. It contains descriptions of animal abuse
Monday mornings at the Mendocino Coast Humane Society, the northern California animal shelter where I work part-time, are chaotic.
The frenzied beeping of anesthesia monitoring equipment echoes as I dodge Coco, one of the resident shelter cats with a penchant for ankles, and tiptoe down a freshly mopped hallway with a bleachy smell that makes my eyes water.
