It’s kind of weird to realize that it’s like, “Oh, I’ve just been doing this social isolation thing before it was even necessary.” YUE: I’ve been working remotely for years now, so it actually wasn’t a huge disruption to my daily life. KAPLAN: Speaking of the COVID-19 pandemic, do you have a daily routine that you’ve adapted to? I used to go once a week… It was like my zen couple hours, to be doing model shoots with these animals who had no interest ( laughs).
They got really aggressive with having people foster so now they have hundreds of foster homes all over the city, so it’s not as necessary to have as many people come in. They actually don’t have that many animals right now, which is kind of surprising. So that was really fun but of course, the last one I did was March 14 th, the news stations aren’t going to let outside people in and the shelters are starting to have volunteers now but it’s really limited hours. We had different themes: “how to deal with depression with an animal,” “why you should adopt an elderly animal,” things like that. It was always kittens or puppies, always baby babies, and we’d bring these cats on the news and we’d talk about the shelter. VENABLE: I did two things! I used to do photographs of the bunnies, the guinea pigs, and sometimes the cats… They had two thousand cat photographers and one person who would do guinea pigs, so, it was only if there was a newborn litter that I got to take cat pictures.Īnd then the other thing they would do is they would have people take animals on the news every Saturday morning. KAPLAN: Could you tell us a bit more about volunteering, and how it’s changed during the pandemic? So for the first six months I raised these bunnies and now they have a home. I help out at the animal shelter, which of course we’re not able to go in, but at the very beginning of it I got to foster newborn baby bunnies. VENABLE: I think that pets have been such great things during this whole lockdown. I like to play with everyone else’s cats! Katie the Catsitter: Doodle approved! I love cats, but! I used to live with two of them, but my studio was a cat-free zone so I didn’t have to live on Benadryl. And Miles was this huge, really long beautiful cat, and my rabbit was four pounds, and Miles would just chase him out of the room. The cat, Miles, is actually in the book! But my bunny did not like the cat. VENABLE: I have two bunnies, and had a cat, but the ex got to keep the cat.
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