Pawing at Poetry

Get it? Because it's about animals, and I used the word Pawing?

School in day,
work at night.
16 hours a day,
and I loved it.
From Boston, to Vermont,
to New Orleans, to Vermont,
to Providence I went.
In animal welfare, that’s how it is.
Growing up, I learned an equation.
Animals + career = vet.
I prove that false.
Abandoned dogs happen.
Left in our yards,
a cardboard box, just dumped.
Animal shelters and animal control
worlds apart.
One word: money.
We never have money,
animal control does.
Another word: mission.
Theirs- people driven.
Ours- animal driven.