Long time no see on this channel

I feel like it's been forever

I apologize for that but

I've actually been working on lots of things behind the scenes

There are some new things that I'm preparing to do with this channel this year

So thank you so much for being patient!

However, I have been uploading a lot on my vlog channel

If you haven't checked that out yet, please go do that

It's more like behind the scenes, what I'm doing in my daily life

My hobbies, products I'm liking, foods I'm making... stuff like that

But today I'm going to be volunteering at an animal shelter

And I really wanted to upload this video over here because

I think it's a topic that several of you guys have been interested in

So I'm going to go with two of my friends, Allie and Nicole

We're going to be volunteering at a shelter that takes in dogs and cats

from other shelters that were about to be put down

So other shelters can hold cats and dogs for a while

But if they can't find homes for them, many of them will kill those animals :(

Whereas this shelter will take those animals that are about to be killed and

they will bring them in and look for new homes for them

and they never kill the animals

They will take care of them until they pass away naturally if they have to

So I think this is a really great place

and I'm really looking forward to volunteering with them

and showing you guys what it's like

And hopefully encouraging lots of you guys to do it as well

if you live in Japan

Or if you're here for a while and you would like to go check it out for a day

All the information will be down in the description box

However, their website is only in Japanese

You may be able to use the Google website translating function to find your way around it

If not you might have to have a Japanese person to help you out with it

Sorry about that, they do not have an English website unfortunately

Anyways we better get going because I've gotta be there really soon

And I'm super excited! So let's go!

All right we're going in!

So it's a house! I wasn't expecting that!

Somebody purchased a house and turned it into a shelter

Are you guys ready?

Yeah!

It's a little smelly

All right we got some slippers for you

Just close the door behind you

It's all for cats

Some dry food, towels and toys

Could I get your name?

Sharla and Nicole

So the dogs here...

You're so cute!

Hi!

Awww

Hey

So a lot of them are adopted from

Chiba animal shelter, Saitama animal shelter...

the ones that have to put dogs down

So this place doesn't put dogs down

Look at her lashes

Ok, what!?

What!?

Look at those lashes!

GIRL

Tell me your secrets!

Are you excited?

A lot of these dogs are either a little bit sick

This is the one that when she got adopted

If you see her tail she doesn't have any hair

She didn't have any hair

She didn't have any hair and was so undernourished

She was so skinny

But she's getting a lot better

These are the bigger dogs

You're excited!

Hi how are you?

He came in with his sister

So his sister got adopted, he's a little bit shy

We're going upstairs to see the cats now!

There's a cat room on the second floor

Awww there's so many!

So cute!

Awww

He's so friendly

Awww

So cute

He's really cute

He's been here since he was really small

He just loves people

You wanna play don't you? You wanna play?

He's so cute

You wanna come play?

This calico is a female, her name is Sorata-chan

She was rescued and brought here by a passerby

She was really tiny and her eyes and nose were

in really bad condition

So bad we thought she might lose her eyes

But she's doing so well now

She looks great

You're so happy

Oh wow, are these all the cats they've had?

Yeah

Whoa

When they come in groups they name them in groups

Udon, Soba

Awww

That's such a good idea

You like to name them in groups right?

Yes!

Oh there's a Luna!

We sometimes name them after food

You're so cute

Oh you wanna bite me?

Do you want attention?

What are you doing?

Awww

So cute

So happy

So if you're interested in adoption any of the pets

there's a couple things they look for

They're ok with foreigners, which is great

Of course they just tell you that if you are going to leave Japan...

that you need to take the pets with you, you can't just abandon them when you leave

That seems like common sense, but some people would do that

So they do make sure that the person is committed to adopting the animal

You need to have a house that allows pets

Sometimes that can be difficult in Japan

Lots of apartments don't allow you to have pets

They will check to make sure your house or apartment where you're staying is Pet OK

And they said that's really about it!

Other than that they'll make sure that you're okay with putting lock on your windows

or a little gate at the door so the pets don't escape and they're safe in your house

They seem to be very flexible

A lot more flexible than other places where I've tried to adopt pets from

They turned me down right away because I was a foreigner

or because I would be out of the house for too many hours

But this place seems to be a little easier

So if you are in Japan and looking to adopt a pet

I will put the link down in the description box so check them out!

And every Sunday they have an open house here

Where anybody can just stop by, take a walk around the place

Look at all the pets and see if they are any that you're interested in adopting

Ow, my toe!

Do you like the yellow shoe?

Oh it's your sock that he likes

I told you not to wear clothes you're gonna miss

Well there goes your shoe

Hey hey hey

There you go

No!

hey hey hey

So when we walk the dogs we take a leash

Hi Miranda

Going for a walk!

Good girl

Thank you!

Please wait in the yard

I think this is the first time I've ever walked a dog in my life

This'll be interesting

Are you excited?

Going to go for a walk?

Yeah!

Come on

Come on

You wanna smell it too?

Come on! Miranda, come on!

Come on, come on!

Good girl!

Yeah, there you go!

Aww he's so pretty!

We're home!

Thank you so much for watching

I hope you guys enjoyed that

I'm back home with my own pets now

Maro was having fun smelling all my clothes

Lots of dog smells that he's not used to

Right? Dog smells?

I'm going to link 2 videos here, in case you guys haven't seen these

Go check them out!

Make sure to subscribe to my channel for more Japan content, and I'll see you next time!

Bye!!