Clay County Animal Services: Dog Field Trip/Short-Term Fostering Grant Report

How did this grant help your organization and the pets in your care?

Our volunteer program is slowly but surely growing. One of the opportunities that has shown growth each month has been our Bow Wow Breakouts. It has grown from just one to an average of three each month, with continued growing interest. The volunteers love putting Adopt Me items on our dogs as they take them into town. We were able to purchase leashes and martingale collars that allow a better, slip-proof way of walking our dogs in public.

How many pets did this grant help?

11 so far

Please provide a story of one or more specific pets this grant helped.

Thanks to the items purchased using this grant, our Bow Wow Breakouts have enabled us to learn more about our dogs in a public setting and with other people.

We got notes on Pecan (first photo) being a fantastic car rider (second photo) and doing well with multiple young children. This helped place her in a foster home with a young child.

Even though Olaf (third photo) is highly treat-motivated, he has great table manners and won’t take your food.

We found out that Sherbert (fourth and fifth photos) loves the water and did great being around some ducks.

We had a dog named Major (sixth and seventh photos) go out and receive a rave review when he came back. This was a long-term dog and he got adopted this past weekend on May 18, 2024, shortly after that Bow Wow Breakout.

I don’t have pictures of Bingo, but he was usually very high-strung in his kennel. When he went on Bow Wow Breakout, we found out he is actually very calm and walks great on the leash outside of the shelter setting. He was adopted shortly afterward on April 24, 2024.