Reporter Sophie Lewis find out what it's like to work at an animal shelter and made some friends along the way
Category
🗞
NewsTranscript
00:00 Hi, I'm Sophie Lewis and I work for the Portsmouth News. Today we're heading down to Stubbington
00:09 Arc to see what it's like behind the scenes, just to kind of get an insight about what
00:14 the team does, the amount of volunteers and what their roles are, the amount of animals,
00:21 just the general site, just kind of have a little tour and see what it's like to work
00:26 at RSPCA Rescue Centre. I'm really, really excited to be heading down there today and
00:34 yeah, I can't wait to see what's in store for us.
00:36 I am buzzing, absolutely buzzing. This has been months in the making so I'm very excited.
00:45 [Music]
01:12 I'm in heaven, rabbit heaven, bunny heaven.
01:19 So Acorn came out to kind of say hello and she's so beautiful. She's looking for a home.
01:27 She's a little bit reactive to other dogs and she doesn't like other dogs, which is
01:31 fine because I don't like other humans. So I felt like we bonded on that level, but no,
01:37 she's so beautiful and calm and you know, she just sat down and she was enjoying some
01:43 little pats, little bum scratch. She just, yeah, she's so cute and my heart is officially
01:50 full. So hopefully she can find a home because she's so deserving of it and yeah, yeah, I'm
01:57 very overwhelmed with all the dogs and the cuteness and the love. So yeah.
02:03 [Music]
02:15 Okay, so we have kind of come back now. We went to an office with these two rats and
02:25 I did not like them. I'm not going to lie. I've got nothing against rats, but the tails,
02:31 they were not for me. So I kind of got forced into a corner to try and hold the rats, but
02:39 they weren't playing ball, luckily enough. So as an alternative, I then went and held
02:46 Penelope the chicken, which was a bit of a stressful situation. And I fed her a few blueberries,
02:54 which she seemed to enjoy. But yeah, I can't say that I'm going to be doing that again
03:00 anytime soon. And I was informed afterwards that I was lucky not to have been pooed on.
03:05 So that's always a bonus. But yeah, we've kind of just come back now. Speaking of rats,
03:13 I look like a drowned rat because the weather has been terrible, but it's been an amazing
03:18 morning. Just kind of seeing what all of the staff, the volunteers do, how they work with
03:25 the animals and kind of get them back to where they should be. Some animals have kind of
03:31 been abused or owners have died. They've come into the care. So it's been really nice to
03:36 see how they're kind of treated and how they find their new homes. And we've been finding
03:44 out about how Southern Tanaks self-funded, how they do all their own fundraising. It's
03:51 just been amazing to kind of go around the cattery, meet Acorn the dog, meet Bo, the
03:57 very adorable dog that decided to fall on me. But yeah, it's been amazing with,
04:04 yeah, some chickens and some rats as well.
04:09 [Music]