Each semester, Marin Humane welcomes a group of students into our Student Service Clubs. These animal-loving students spend the semester learning about Marin Humane become animal advocates through their work. Middle and high school students in the Junior and Senior Roots & Shoots clubs develop a community service project to guide their semester. These clubs are part of the national Roots & Shoots program started by Dr. Jane Goodall. For their project this semester, students decided to invite a variety of speakers from different animal-involved organizations to teach us what they do. You can watch new [...]

Each meeting our Student Service clubs engage in an activity to help the shelter and I always aim to have them meet someone who works at the shelter. This week, the Roots and Shoots club met Officer Darlington, one of our Animal Services Officers. Officer Darlington told us all about her job and the calls she gets each day - both typical and atypical. Her most recent adventure involved rescuing a turkey that had crashed through a woman's window and got trapped in her house! Officer Darlington came to the rescue and was able to capture [...]