If you’re a pet lover, this one will pull at your heartstrings — and maybe inspire you too.
Canine Companions, one of the largest service dog organizations in North America, is facing a critical shortage of volunteer puppy raisers. These are everyday people — busy families, couples, singles — who open their homes to a puppy for about a year, love them, train them, and then hand them off to someone whose life they’ll transform.
The bittersweet part? Saying goodbye is built into the job.
For anyone who has loved and lost a pet, that particular kind of grief — loving something fully while knowing the goodbye is coming — is deeply familiar. The volunteers who do this work describe it as one of the most meaningful things they’ve ever done, even with the tears at the end.
Read the full story at Canine Companions → https://canine.org/news/puppy-raiser-shortage/
— Michaele-Sue Goldblatt, MSW, RSW
