I’m taking the subject Moral and Ethics this trimester. While everyone thinks it’s a stupid and boring subject, I think it’s fairly unique and interesting! Why?

Besides being able to do an extremely entertaining presentation on Terrorism, we were all supposed to do some kind of social work as part of the coursework!

Usually, social work in our country means you go to some old folks’ home, orphanage, hospital, or home for the disabled, to do some work and help out in some way. This typically involves cleaning up, preparing food and drinks, entertaining and accompany the people et cetera.

With only two people in our group – me and Glen – we decided that we do not want to go to the places where other people are going. We did some investigations and found out that most groups are going to old folks’ homes, kindergartens, and most common of all – the Cyberjaya Fire Brigade.

Jeeez, kindergartens and orphanages are fine, but social work at the fire department? Makes you think we’d have to help put out fires or something…

Anyway, after much consideration, we settled with the, presumably, most fun idea of all – a visit to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) in Selangor. Through the phone, we made an appointment for a Saturday afternoon, and they accepted.

On September 8^th, we went to SPCA Selangor at 2 o’clock in the afternoon. Expecting a really fun afternoon, we stepped into the rather smelly receptionist area. I mean, after all, we’re dealing with animals, and I really like animals, so how bad can it be?

First, the ‘admin’ lady was like: “What? Voluntary work? Why are you guys so late? There’s nothing much left to do already!”. Then, we were brought into the animal shelter compound, where the ‘admin’ lady told another lady: “These people are here for voluntary work! Do you have something for them to do? No? Find something for them to do.”

Luckily for us, the other lady was really friendly, she looked Australian. She introduced us to a girl, who seemed to be the daughter of the owner of the place.

The girl told us there’s really not much to do at that time of the day, but we could help out with the cleaning of food bowls, as they were going to prepare dinner for the dogs soon.

So she brought us to a place where a huge basin filled with soap water was, and instructed us to wash the food bowls piled beside it. God, when piled up I think they’re taller than both the heights of me and Glen combined! I’ve never seen so many bowls waiting to be washed in my entire life!

So we were on. Glen started washing the bowls with a small scrub and the soap water in the basin, while I rinsed the bowls and piled them up for drying.

I must say, the process was extremely gross because we had to remove unfinished food from the bowls and all the remains went into the disgusting mixture of soap water, rice, vegetables, and dog saliva – Into which we had to dip our hands repeatedly for like, more than a hundred times.

It gets a thousand times more revolting when water from that basin gets accidentally splashed on your face, and even once, into my eye. Oh SHHHIIIITTT!!!

Anyway, we finished washing the piles of bowls in about an hour. And we were so proud of it. That’s the time where we wondered how the good people at SPCA managed to wash so many of them, twice a day, DAILY!

They must love animals so much to commit such a sacrifice!

With our major task done, we were free to look around the area and play with the animals!

Basically, this place is divided into two parts, the dogs’ shelter, and the cats’ shelter. There were many, unbearably cute puppies at the dogs’ area!

And kitties at the cats’ area! – This one looks kinda bored.

Oh how I wish I could adopt one of them and rear ‘em at home! But then if I did so, Jon’s rabbits will be made dinner by the new pet. Rabbits are, after all, at the bottom of the food chain.

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