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Every day, there is an awful, moreover disgusting, truth of the inexcusable offense. All over the world, animals are abused. It's outrageous, sickening, and wrong to abuse anyone. Nevertheless, it makes your blood boil when it comes to the truly innocent. No matter how hard people try to rescue the animals and give them new homes, they don't always succeed. Plus, sometimes you'd have to face the most unfavorable of it. The passing of a baby is dying because it is too late for them.
In Republic City, the Gaang, as they're known, faced this reality. Their school Avatar Wan High had just started an innovative program this school year. It was a community service project. So the institution was divided into groups and assigned to do a project that benefited their community and the world.
The Gaang family consisted of Aang's older sister Arianna, Sokka, Katara's foster sister Nita, Toph's cousin Brock and Zuko's cousin Ember. They'd elected to plant trees throughout the city.
Azula, Mai, and Ty Lee's group's chosen project were to help at the library. To promote children improving their reading and writing skills. Along with educating a few people on how to read. Suki's group had decided to support the homeless in the city. Consequently, they're many impressive projects going on. However, the Gaang had chosen one of the most challenging positions.
Their chosen project was to assist at the Republic City Animal Rescue or RCAR. It consisted of two structures divided between the dogs and the cats. RCAR regularly stated that numerous people supported and donated items for the dogs. On the other hand, the cats got insufficient attention, goods, and help. Consequently, that is why the Gaang had resolved to support the cats.
The building for the cats was significantly smaller then the one for the dogs. Also, all the rooms were overflowing with cats and even more numerous kittens. There was never adequate room, and grievously multiple kittens perished. The kitten dying were either their moms were still kittens themselves, fleas, or just too weak. The girls Katara, Akiko, and even Toph couldn't help but mourn for hours when a whole litter had died overnight. All twelve babies!
This led them to work even harder at the shelter. Each was assigned a different job. Aang's job was to sterilize all the playthings, plastic towers, and frequently touched surfaces. Sokka was given the job of brushing all hair off the furniture. Katara assigned duty was to brush all the cats. Toph's job was to help clean and change out the litter boxes.
Finally, Zuko and Akiko had to sweep and mop. The kids were given a side task to develop names for the animals. Because the shelter had pretty horrible taste in names, seeing how they'd name like "K-mart," "Oatmeal," "Mathematics," "Golf Cart," "Gummy Bear," and finally "Nintendo." Not the brightest or likable names, for sure. More to the point, they sounded ridiculous, to begin with.
The Gaang quickly became a well-oiled machine doing all it could to keep the shelter clean and the felines content. However, there were a few cats you needed to watch out for. For example, one was Blue Bonnet, who would claw at any cat that got too close. The same went for the declawed Evee. Also, Alfredo was constantly escaping from the room he belonged in, and they'd chase him down and put him back.
But for the next several months, their hard work paid off, and slowly more cats were adopted, fewer died, and finally, the names got better! So now the animals had a brighter future; hopefully, the world was wiser because of it!