I attended the 12:20-1:50 time period, but the march ended later than expected. For the first hour that I attended, I asked the people at the booths some questions. The first thing my eyes caught sight of was the pit bull from the Fresno Bully Rescue. I decided to ask them questions, and record them using iCati. Unfortunately, the recording of the interviews I did that day was horribly choppy. I learned that the Fresno Bully Rescue is a non-profit shelter to rescuing bully breed dogs. They host monthly volunteer orientations at their facility. During the orientations volunteers first try bonding with the dogs to try to get to know them. Later, the volunteer go on walks around town. Fresno Bully Rescue promotes animal therapy. They take qualified shelter dogs to nursing homes and host sufferers of Autism or those with limited mobility at their facility. This booth interested me the most because I owned a pit bull mixed lab, but something went horribly wrong where he was taken away while I was in class. I wanted to know why it all happened and if there was any way of me preventing it all to happen. The woman that talked to me about it from the shelter said he was most likely traumatized as a puppy and whatever event happened triggered a bad memory that led him to attack. I am thinking of doing their next orientation on Saturday, March 26.
The second booth I went to talk to was called, "Free the Slaves". They gave me interesting information and statistics on modern day slavery that I didn't know at all. Every 30 seconds someone is being sold into slavery. Slavery generates about 150 billion dollars for traffickers each year and 78 percent of slavery victims are in labor slavery, the other 22 percent are in sex slavery. A girl told me, she knew someone that seen a girl frail and in need of help on the streets. She took her in, gave her shelter, and fed her. She later found out that she was abducted as a child somewhere from the east coast, I think North Carolina. She then contacted the organization and reunited the girl with her family.
The march was an entirely new experience for me. I have never been part of one before. The sign I was hold said, "Stop Animal Abuse!!", with a cute heart shaped paw print on it. I could shout much because I was about to lose my voice. As we walked along Shaw we received some support form people passing by in there cars honking for us. The route of the march was further than I expected.
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