Dog days are fun days on trips away from the shelter with volunteers
Associated PressMADISON, N.J. — The place where Finlee lives is nice enough: It’s clean, they feed and care for him well and there are always people to pet and scratch him. Finlee, a one-year-old black mouth cur mix, gets to experience that world semi-regularly thanks to a program at St. Hubert’s Animal Welfare Center that allows volunteers to take dogs on field trips. “It gets dogs out of the shelter for a few hours,” said Sarah Sangree, director of community engagement at St. Hubert’s, which is part of the Humane Rescue Alliance, and takes in and cares for animals from far and wide while seeking permanent homes for them. “Kennels are a stressful place.” She said dogs that leave the shelter even for two or three days show noticeable reductions in stress as measured by their cortisol levels. St. Hubert’s in New Jersey has sent 500 dogs on day trips this year, with a goal of 1,000 by year’s end.
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