Dunn doesn't know why anyone would give him away. Jangles , a 50 pound female, who is still in the puppy chew stage, needs more training. Dunn enrolled the kids and dogs in puppy kindergarten. He plans to watch and help them if needed, but hopes they will learn how to train their own dogs. You can't tell a dog to get down from the couch if a dog has learned that down means lie down and off means get off the couch.
Some volunteers offer to become foster parents, fundraisers or dog runners.
Kathy Hackmann, a retired St. Louis resident, does a little bit of everything. She is now fostering her third and fourth dogs named Sadie and Angel . For Hackmann, giving dogs a second chance and helping them realize that they're dogs makes the volunteer work worth it. Her first foster dogs came from kennels and had never seen the inside of a house. Once Goldie figured out the stairs, though, she just kept going up and down them.