Quote Originally Posted by kuhio98 View Post
Take a Shelter Dog for a Walk
I recently saw a poster where a local animal shelter started a program where a volunteer can take a shelter dog for a walk. I thought what a great idea for so many reasons. It can help with adoptions as some volunteers may bond with a dog and adopt them. It is also a way for those who are not able to take care of a pet full time to help out with the shelters!
Our excellent local animal shelter/rescue organization, the Humane Society of Huron Valley, has a whole volunteer program of Dog Walkers.. people who regularly take the shelter dogs out for walks around the area. This not only benefits volunteers and other community members as above, it also benefits the dogs in giving them regular exercise and also some time with kind people to become more socialized (which some need badly depending on their lives before arriving at the shelter)... making them more adoptable. Everyone benefits!

I volunteer at the Humane Society but am not a dog walker.. I am in a comparable program for the cats, called Cat Comforters. That's what we do too, give the cats some attention and affection, with similar benefits for the volunteers and the cats.

You can only do one or the other, I think until you rise to a higher level of volunteer than I've gotten to so far. Some time I hope to do some dog walking too.

The Humane Society's web site is hshv.org .. They do all kinds of amazing things!