Spoken Passage

I'm going to share information about Paws it forward. historically I've always been an animal lover but it wasn't till my Twenties that I got involved in dog rescue. at the time I had a dog myself and her and I competed in agility competitions. That's what I saw that acquaintance had started a dog rescue called Paws it forward. My first involvement was to offer to Foster. Basically being a foster means that you open your heart and your home to a dog in need. You do not pay for anything the rescue provides food that bills treats beds Toys whatever you might need. the first song I had was called Ranger and he came from La in the United States. The rescue is always open to helping the SPCA here locally and BC as well as anyone else that needs help by the time the states really needed help. I began to realize that the States was a lot different than Canada they treated their animal my property. We had stories of dogs that would just be left behind either locked in the house or on the street because their family had moved away. Every dogs that were wonderful dogs that only wanted to love and behave that were lost in shelters. The Shoppers in the states are not like the ones in Canada. The shelters Austin Lac proper food that care and wants. I remember a story of of one shelter that they would spray down the floors of the compound to clean up the poop and that floor would then freeze overnight and adducts to it. There's a big network of rescues all over the country that work with pullers to get the dogs out of the shelter. A polar will be someone who Goes to the shelter and takes the Dogs Out. The dog would stay with them for a short. Of time while they got what they needed to cross the border. Then the dogs to take a long track in a transport truck along with hundreds of other dogs to make it to Canada. Do we have a volunteer meat to the truck in Canada to pick up the dogs and then drive them back to Kelowna. Magical moments on that transport arise in Kelowna and all the Fosters are waiting for the dogs. It could be at 3 in the morning and a snowstorm and we'd all be there excited to see the dogs. The truck doors would open and shockingly enough they were always quiet. Since that first dog I have fostered nearly 40 to 50 dogs it is hard to keep talking now. We also have been helping a lot out of Manitoba. People often think that problems of dogs is not something that Canada deals with but it is. In Anatolia Northern Manitoba there is a big dog population problem where they are lost to roam free not cared for and I'll send will become packed. The facts can be dangerous and some communities even put out a dog Call. $5 for a tail. sometimes these dogs were shot and not actually killed their tail was cut off and they were not actually dead. There's a rescue we work with called canine Advocates that work out of Manitoba to try to spay and neuter the dogs as well as rescue any they can. Their route often included the dump. As Northern Manitoba has cold temperatures in the winter they would find dogs frozen to death in boxes or bags at the dump or if they were lucky they would find dogs that were still alive. In my experience every single rescue dog I have bought has been a blessing. All they wanted was a second chance and when you show them love and unconditional understanding they would do anything they could to behave and do what you wanted them to do. Although I've had many dogs that came from very sad background it always came to a happy ending because of faucet for it. Over the years I've not only been a foster but a foster coordinator an adoption coordinator a volunteer at fundraising a person that would go to pick up dogs being surrounded by owner. I even adopted and brought a dog home from Mexico to foster and adopt out in Kelowna. I have been involved in many different ways and I'm a better person because of it. Whenever one dog leaves and I'm sad in the back of my mind I'm always thinking when's the next one coming.

Reflection

I used Good Read/Write to speak the passage above. From what I understand, it is a fairly good program, and although I see mistakes, I am surprised there are not more of them. I did have to say ‘period’ when I wanted to end a sentence, though I tend to ramble, so there are run-on sentences within my passage. I also did not say when to put a comma, but just paused. That resulted in there being no commas in the passage. If I had scripted the passage, I probably would have known where to include the commas, instead of naturally talking and pausing. There were also some minor mistakes with capitalization of names or certain words. The main errors are to be found in word choice. I was surprised to see google go back and change a word based on the context of the sentence as I spoke, but it is not infallible. For example, “surrounded by owner” is actually supposed to be ‘surrendered by the owner’. That would not be a common term for google, so it did not know how to correct that. The other term in rescue speak is ‘puller’. That is not something used in english language, but instead a term for someone taking the dogs out of the shelters and sending them on their way. I also discovered that the passage got better as I went, either I got more comfortable speaking into the mic and became more fluid, or I changed the way I was talking to accommodate what I saw being written. This version of storytelling (oral) is very different than written. When spoken, people will be able to tell how passionate and knowledgeable I am about the topic. Written, it doesn’t seem very descriptive. If I was writing this to someone, I would have gone back and fixed sentences, added descriptive words, and changed some of my word choices. It was an interesting experiences, and I was pleasantly surprised with how easy it was to do, and how accurate (for the most part) it was. Though I would think speaking anything with dialogue would be cumbersome as one would have to says ‘quotation mark’ and ‘comma’ a lot to have correct conventions, or spend a lot of time fixing it after the fact.