11/19/2025
🐾November's volunteer of the month is Ashley Ellison!🐾
Ash started volunteering in September of 2024. She had been looking for a place to volunteer for a while, but found that most shelters require volunteers to be over eighteen. One of Ash’s friends from school told her about Second Chance SPCA and she was super excited to have a place she could actually volunteer.
While volunteering at Second Chance SPCA, Ash has made herself a valued regular, coming in multiple times in the week to help prepare the animals food, cleaning kennels, administering medications, vaccinations and taking lots and lots of photos for our animal’s online profiles.
Born and raised in the Allen area. Ash is a senior at Allen High School. Ash has two dogs named Scout and Leela. She takes part in the choir, plays piano, and dances competitively, Ash is also a member of the Allen FFA. Ash also loves a good book.
Ash enjoys getting to see every individual animal's personality. Ash says it's so interesting how distinctive all their characteristics are. And of course, anytime we get new kittens is a good day.
“I’m having a little trouble coming up with something, the only thing I can think of is whenever I would go into River’s kennel and would sit with her, she tried to eat my hair. Every time.”
We truly could not run our shelter without our amazing and compassionate volunteers!
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