“My favourite portion of volunteering is walking the dogs, and trying to enrich them to marque it easier for them to get adopted,” Cliff shared. “These dogs person been done truthful overmuch — coming from termination shelters, earthy disasters, breached homes, abandonment. If I tin assistance them get backmost to a spot wherever they tin consciousness harmless and loved, well, that’s wherefore I’m here.”

Cliff has worked with countless dogs, but a fewer basal retired successful his representation — similar Ozzy, who had been deed by a car and had an antithetic gait. After being adopted, Ozzy’s caller household sent pictures of him sailing connected a boat, enjoying his caller life. “That’s the champion part,” Cliff said. “It’s bittersweet due to the fact that you miss them — but that’s the goal.”

Cliff’s passionateness for giving dogs real-world experiences led him to go profoundly progressive successful Animal League America’s Adventure Club, a programme that takes our dogs connected outings beyond the campus. Whether it’s a locomotion on the formation oregon a travel to a marina, Cliff knows these experiences assistance dogs physique assurance and link with imaginable adopters. “I’ve taken astir a twelve dogs retired connected these trips. They emotion it — barking astatine seagulls, chasing geese, getting pup cups astatine the end. It’s antithetic from conscionable a locomotion astir the parking lot. They get to beryllium dogs again.”

His compassion successful enactment is inspiring to unit and chap volunteers alike. “Cliff is an highly dedicated unpaid who cares precise profoundly for each our animals,” said Diane Johnson, Vice President of Shelter Operations. “He goes supra and beyond to springiness our dogs clip distant from the structure to beryllium their blessed selves retired and astir enjoying clip with their person,”

Thank you, Cliff, for your committedness and for ever making definite our dogs travel first!