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An increasing number of students are volunteering at the Lowell Humane Society. Chrystyana Edgecomb, a nursing major, is one of them. Now in her fifth month volunteering at the shelter, Edgecomb aims to dedicate 15 hours a week there.
Edgecomb cleans cages, walks dogs, washes dishes and takes on any other tasks that help lighten the load of the staff. Edgecomb also assists the organization’s community outreach division and advises for the Teens Helping Pets group.
“It’s nice to help out the animals that don’t have homes,” she says. “No matter what, all the animals may at some point feel lonely, but during the day I feel that it is the volunteer’s job to make the animals feel loved and to release them from their cages,” herself a dog owner, believes that every shelter animal needs a piece of “home” each day.
“For the dogs it may be a chew toy or a bone, and for the cats it may be a mouse or some treats,” she says.
Edgecomb says that the shelter is at maximum capacity – and could use more volunteers.
“Volunteering allows an animal to stay in the shelter stress-free for another day,” she says.