I've been coming to Asan for about two years.
I first started coming because I was interested in fostering a dog here.
I didn't really know that there were a lot of opportunities for volunteering in this
capacity in Korea because I thought, you know, pets aren't popular here.
How could there possibly be stray dogs and cats who need this type of help?
The volunteers do, you know, what they're most interested in.
I mean, some people come because they want to spend time with the dogs or walk the dogs.
Some people come because they want to groom or clean ears or do nail clipping.
Some people want to do, like, the hardcore cleaning, like cleaning out the cages and
just, you know, tidying up and stuff like that.
We get a lot done.
So it's a good group.
We've got a lot of momentum.
I have been coming here since about September 2011.
The shelter is a wonderful and a horrible place.
Obviously, it's horrible because of all the homeless dogs and cats, but Myst Park is a
great sort of support system and the volunteers are amazing.
Every weekend when I come here, I go home feeling a really good sense of achievement.
It's challenging because there's such a mix of dead animals here.
A lot of them have been abandoned, I think, because people didn't know how to train them
properly, so they aren't house trained or that kind of thing.
So a little bit of TLC is really all it takes to sort of work with them and get them adoptable.
It's really rewarding to see them get out and enter home and see the before and after.
The dogs at Asan are, as a collective group, amazing.
Like I can't even imagine why or how some of them ended up here.
It breaks my heart.
There are at least 10 or 15 dogs that I would take home in a heartbeat if I could.
They're adoptable, they're friendly, they just, they need someone to give them a chance.
I mean, obviously, we have dogs here that do have issues if they need to be socialized
or, you know, they don't get along well with other dogs, but I mean, this isn't exactly
an ideal situation for them to be living in.
Can you imagine being in a cage 24-7?
They want to walk, they want to play, they're social animals, they need their people, they
need stimulation.
The once a week we visit, you can tell, they're excited, they're happy to get out.
It's hard because there are so many wonderfully adoptable dogs here and there aren't enough
wonderful adoptive dogs.
