30 Seconds with Animal Services Volunteer Barbara DeGrande

30 Seconds with Animal Services Volunteer Barbara DeGrande
By Office of Communication
Posted on April 03, 2014, April 03, 2014

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  1. What's your name? Barbara
  2. Nick name? Grandsons call me Bubba
  3. How long have you been a volunteer? Two years
  4. Where are you from? California
  5. What music CD do you like? Boz Scaggs Silk Degrees or Santana's Supernatural.
  6. What's the last movie you saw? Blue Jasmine
  7. What's your favorite animal? No favorites, appreciate them all. Somehow fostered kittens even though I was supposed to foster dogs! Fell in love with each and every one of them.
  8. What's your favorite reality show? Pitbulls and Parolees of course!
  9. What book are you reading right now? Aftershock: Confronting Trauma in a Violent World, by Patrice Jones
  10. Where was your last vacation? The adult kids took me on a cruise to Spain and Portugal two years ago.
  11. What's your favorite quote or saying? "Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty." ~Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  12. What's your favorite hobby? Photography
  13. How much time do you spend volunteering per week? A lot! I used to work mainly on the adoption floor at AAS but because of other commitments (related to animals) my hours are a bit more dispersed these days.
  14. What do you enjoy most about volunteering? Saving lives. I value animal lives no less than human lives, so it is very important to me that we do the best possible job matching appropriate animals to appropriate homes. I would love to work to see the adoption returns and owner surrenders decrease. I also love working with fearful and traumatized animals - guess that is the retired therapist in me.
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