 I was a superintendent here at Columbia Animal Services and I'm here today to tell you about a really awesome program that we are starting. It's a doggy day out program and it's essentially a volunteer program that will allow folks to come to the facility for an orientation to find out how you can sign up to take a dog out for the day. This is really beneficial to our facility and of course the dogs because it allows them time outside of the shelter to stretch their legs, do some meet and greet, get a break and hopefully get adopted. What we do is we have dogs here that unfortunately have been here longer than we would like for them to be here. And by starting this program where you can come pick up dogs, take them out, spend some time with them out on the town, get a pup cat, take them to walk in the park, things like that. We are enriching the lives of these long term shelter dogs here. Get them out, get them in the community. The doggy day out program is a program that hopefully will get more dogs adopted for us here but also to help enrich the lives of everyone. But our volunteers and our dogs here, people that can't have pets are welcome to come pick up a dog, take them out, spend some time with them, it gets the dogs out. Unfortunately, dogs do get uninstitutionalized in the shelter just like people and taking them out enables them to spend some time not behind a cage door and it really helps with their long term enrichment. In order to take a dog out with us, you do have to do an orientation which is done once a month on a Saturday. The next upcoming one is February the 19th at 10 a.m. If that's something you're interested in, definitely check us out on Facebook. That is where we announce all of our orientations and volunteer opportunities. There is a Columbia Animal Services volunteer group as well as just the Columbia Animal Services page where everything is announced. Our goals of the doggy day out program are to of course get the dogs out of the shelter, spend some time out in the public. We hope that they are good citizens while they're out in the public and really represent the City of Columbia Animal Services as well. Encourage people to come down here and adopt. We also hope to enrich their lives so they're not stuck here all the time until they do get to their forever homes. Thank you for listening in. If you're interested in joining our doggy day out program, you can give us a call at 803-776-PETS which is 7387 or come on down to 127 Humane Lane. We're here Monday through Friday at 8.35 on Saturday from 9 to 4.