How I spent my day volunteering at ARK Animal Refuge Kansai
Let me tell you about the time I went to Osaka's Animal Shelter. It was a warm Autumn day. I headed out around nine in the morning to get a bit of a headstart to my day, knowing I have quite a journey ahead. A few days before that day, I couldn't help but think about the dogs I have back home in the Philippines and how much I missed them. Back then, my family and I had three dogs and one cat. Two of the dogs were strays that we took into our home when they were a puppy. With that train of thought, it gave me an idea to volunteer at any local animal shelter I could find that had dogs or any animals I could maybe pet or play. So I went online and looked for the nearest animal shelter I could find. Unfortunately, the "nearest" animal shelter I found was a long way away in the countryside of Kansai where not a lot of people live. I still decided I would go. After doing more research on how to get there, taking notes of the names of the places in Kanji, I prepared fo