Buffalo Humane's heart and soul rests on the efforts of its talented group of volunteers. These dedicated people run the entire organization with no employees and they receive no salary. Instead, they dedicate themselves evenings and weekends, lunch hours, and mid-day breaks (around their regular jobs) to ensure that area animals are cared for and find new forever homes. A number of recent cases attests to the group's commitment to its mission. Avery was a purebred German Shepherd Dog who ended up at the Buffalo municipal shelter covered in chemical burns. His skin was literally peeling off his body. It took months of treatment and care to get this boy the right forever home and to a point where his back wasn't breaking out in infected sores. Another city shelter case that Buffalo Humane stepped in to assist on was Justice, the blind German Shepherd. All looked perfectly normal until he had complications from surgery. Buffalo Humane volunteers found themselves over the Thanksgiving week having to hand-dress wounds and to pack an open incision with medicated gauze packs. Two people had to hold him down, while a third worked on his wounds. You see, Justice developed a MRSA infection (flesh-eating) that nearly killed him. It means cutting away a large portion of his stomach and his jaw area & tongue (because he was licking it). The group has also taken in super shy and feral cats, to prevent them from being euthanized as unadoptable in local traditional shelters. They deal with some tough cases, but those animals get the help they need and eventually find great homes.
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