The active volunteer list of 3,497 people includes 65 breeder caretakers and 521 puppy raisers. Dean and Jean Hailey of Meadow Vista started volunteering as puppy raisers in 1990. Dean Hailey gets a touch more than misty when he talks about the 40 or so dogs he has helped raise over the years. It doesn't mean it's any easier to give them up for the fifth or sixth time than it was the first time. But you do it for the good of other people, and there is nothing more rewarding than that.
Puppy raisers are that kind of people.