Kirk Geiger

What do you like most and least about what you do?

What I like the most is picking what would be seen as a negative situation and turning it into an exponentially positive situation. Let’s say the dog that’s hit by the car on the side of the road that everyone’s driving by, that if we didn’t catch it by dark and the coyotes came out, we knew it probably would have passed. So, we get the dog, and we get it fixed up. And then when that dog is actually adopted, there’s a moment when people say, “That’s my dog.” And when they actually adopt it, we do the, you know, the adoption photos. It’s seeing the passion of the new owner, taking over a dog that we knew that shouldn’t really be on the planet right now. And that was really… that was specifically us that helped that happen. This is the reason we do it. You know, we’re just… we’re volunteers. So, if I didn’t get this feeling from taking an animal in need and giving it to a person, and then the person gets the love and all that, just, and then they bring it back to the kids and the kids love the dog. It’s just, it’s extremely rewarding. It’s very hard to explain to anyone what that feels like until you do it. Once you do it, it’s definitely a phenomenal addiction. It’s just that good feeling of helping a dog and getting it to a good spot.

What I don’t like about it, and hopefully this is going to be temporary because I am the point man for everything. So, if my phone wasn’t off right now, you would have heard nine texts and four phone calls in the past few minutes. That’s frustrating because I could be in the field working with an animal or doing something important when there’s a bunch of other information coming in on my phone, and I need to transfer that to somebody else. So, until we really get dispatched, and we get a little bit more organized, get a couple volunteers, maybe manning phones, that I’m information guy can be pretty frustrating because I want to share that info and have case managers working on things because things can get lost. I get new cases coming in every day. So, I would say that’s the most frustrating thing is just taking in the information and organizing it correctly when it’s all coming in on my phone when I’m out in the field.