 Hello, my name is Victoria Riles and I'm the Animal Services Superintendent for the City of Columbia. I want to thank you for tuning in today as we highlight some of our programs here at Columbia Animal Services and introduce a few of our life-saving team members. We hope you enjoy this short segment and find out how you too can be a part of life-saving. We've always had a low-profile volunteer program for many years but in the last 12 months it's grown exponentially so we're super excited to streamline our volunteer onboarding process. So now volunteers can go online they can apply for our volunteer program and then once we receive their application we'll get them approved then they'll complete a volunteer orientation. We'll give them a tour and then we can get them matched up with a volunteer here that's a little bit more experienced and kind of show them the ropes as well. So we have multiple different opportunities so we try to gear it towards every age group and what each individual would be comfortable with. So we do have where you can work with dogs, you can work with cats, you can also do take-home tasks as well so if you don't necessarily want to be in the shelter environment you can still help the shelter by taking home syringes as well as snuffle mats. You can also work with our vet back in the clinic if you'd like to work more on the medical side of things. We also offer slumber buddies and doggy day out. So those programs would essentially be a field trip or a sleepover so that way we can gain more information on that animal to find them a better match. Any volunteer program needs to have a very good enrichment program regularly because we don't know how long these animals are going to be here for. They may be here for days or even months so of course we want to make sure that their lives are enriched. They're engaged mentally and physically so we depend heavily on volunteers to come in and to take our dogs out for walks. They can also play with them. They can enrichment treats and toys. I started off as a volunteer and I did it for many years and I just I fell in love with having a goal. I would get to wake up in the morning and I knew I was going to make a difference in those animals' lives. Be able to enrich them and get them matched up with a better home and lucky me it led to a career in animal services and it's something I've just always enjoyed doing. So they can contact us by phone or email. Any employee here would be able to answer their questions how to apply and where they would get started and then from there we would just direct them to the City of Columbia website where they would be able to fill out the application. Thank you again for tuning in and learning what we're doing over here at Columbia Animal Services. We'd love to have you be a part of any of our programs whether it be foster, volunteer, rescue or engagement on a daily basis. Please reach out to us via our social media platforms on Facebook, Columbia Animal Services and Instagram, Columbia Animal Services to find out what's going on and how you can be a part of the fun.