- Traditionally, it seems valentines day is reserved for romance... but what about another type of love, through friendship?
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Walking in to the very warm, welcoming building, you are suddenly rushed with noise. A lot of noise.
Greeted with radiating bright orange eyes, there are... animals crowding the room, running over frantic attendants and enthralled volunteers. It is incredibly hectic in here, sounds flooding the room and (rather unfortunately) your eardrums from all the chaos. Seems like saying they are busy is an understatement. There is a young adult who has a bunch of birds (and a... very big crow?) surrounding him on the floor; a very scary, short man who is standing by the desk seems to be having a stare-off with a dog who has a toilet paper roll in her mouth; a priestly man is sitting on the floor covered in a bunch of kittens, and despite the bandana covering his mouth, it looks like he's seen some things.
And then... there is the counter in the middle of the room. A man with visible teeth poking out from his mouth gives you an anxious smile, sitting behind the desk. He has a bird clinging off his short, buzzed hair, and as you approach closer to figure out just... what... is happening here, you see that there is a sleeping kitten on this dinosaur's lap. Peering, you notice his name tag on his floral shirt says "Daniel Vans". As you look a little closer at him, it seems like he is just... a very, very nervous fellow, and that he probably is the definition for 'I'm here just for the animals. I don't like people'. It also seems he can figure out why you are here, and given the confused look on your face, he provides an explanation.
"Hello... we have a lot of animals around valentines... many wolves find they want to add another member to their family around this date... so we try our best to help find the best homes for animals who do not have one."
Seems honorable enough: there certainly are a LOT of animals here.
"Would you be interested in fostering one?" Daniel pauses. "We have a lot on our hands here... maybe you can help give an animal some love before they go off to their forever home?"
As he says this, you feel a bit of a twinge in your heart. Maybe you should help out...
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Welcome to the 2020 RPW Valentines event! Around this time of year there are a lot of animals that need homes: from being given back to a shelter after being Christmas gifts, from unwanted litters, from being rescued from the extreme hot / colds, and everything in between...
More about fostering wrote:Fostering requires a lot of work and dedication: as such, this is a prompt based booth! Every day you will be given a prompt to go along to, in order to take care of your foster pet! Every time you answer a prompt, the foster gets a little bit closer to being able to be rehomed. If you are able to successfully adopt out your foster, then at the end of the event you might just get a very special reward! You will, every day, receive compensation for your fostering as a "thank you" from Daniel and the rest of the adoption team: but would it not be a reward in of itself to see your foster grow?
Please note that all the fosters will be different: if you choose to take on this task, then know you might get an usual animal, or a newborn that is a runt of the litter, or maybe even an animal who has trauma and needs to be taught how to love again.
Embrace the spirit of love and give these animals all the love you have got!