An Introduction

Welcome to my blog, I'll be your guide.

Over the next couple of months I will be making weekly visits to the RISPCA, a nonprofit humane society, in order to observe, take notes, and collect data. These visits are a part of a fieldworking project I am doing for my First Year Writing class. The purpose of the project is to study and learn about a specific location and its subculture and traditions.

I chose to do my fieldworking on the RISPCA because that is where I adopted my cat, Calliope, or Callie for short.

I have always loved animals and I wanted to be a veterinarian for a large portion of my childhood, though I moved away from that when I realized that I would have to euthanize animals as well as deal with abused and neglected animals. My personal experience makes me curious about how the RISPCA workers and volunteers deal with that sort of thing on a daily basis.

All in all, I am excited to begin the research and start sharing my discoveries.