Presented at the American Pets Alive No-Kill Conference 2014.

1. Dog walking and Volunteer
Engagement

2. Day in the life
Manual and soon-to be electronic sign in
Leash, poop bag
Sign out on whiteboard
Go to a yard
Let them potty and then have fun,
scoop the poop.
Repeat until all dogs have been out twice a day
Every time a dog gets out, their stress level
decreases, thus making their kennel behavior
more desirable for potential adopters

3. Onboarding new
volunteers/engagement
● Welcome letter JumpStart program
● Google groups-google docs are the BEST
● Facebook closed groups
● Mentoring
● Potlucks
● Happy hours

4. Hour tracking for training
Sign in, log hours into google doc, follow up when achieving 10
(BBBS) and 15 (BOO)
New set of volunteers about every 2 weeks

5. Whiteboard

6. Collar Color
Green
Pink
Orange
RedSilver
Blue

7. Training equipment
Martingale
Easy walk
harness
Gentle leader
● Pinch/prong collar● Good dog collar

8. Training
Mentoring-walk
dogs with
training
equipment
BOO (basic orange
orientation) taught by
volunteers
Level 1 kennel
routine, pressure/r
elease; drop and
goes, left hand
circles for walking
on leash
Experience and
approval by staff
to walk certain
silver dogs and
some reds
Level 2-in depth
kennel routines
more obedience
skills taught by
Mike Kaviani
JAM jumpy and
mouthy-taught by
experienced volunteers

9. B.O.O (Basic Orange Orientation)

10. Numbers

11. Numbers continued
Month #volunteers #hours
June 156 check this 1474
July 233 2207.5
August 314 2117.75
September 308 1744.5
October 316 1861.25
November 340 1863.75
December 284 1716.5