The charity is battling a drop in donations as folks deal with the cost-of-living disaster. Working at shelters can mean treating animal victims of abuse and neglect, and listening to harrowing tales of home violence. Her partner, Michael, is tugging off his waders in the provide closet after hosing down our 26 kennels, arms rough from constant immersion in water. I swing open the door to the office, the place the chief director, Judy Martin, is on the telephone negotiating a transfer of 12 puppies from Covelo, a hamlet 77 miles east of us that has a growing dog overpopulation…