Sentences with phrase «on walks with volunteers»

All of the rescue dogs eat raw food donated by S&C and get Zuke's treats when out on walks with volunteers or in training sessions.

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WASHINGTON (CNN)- It made for an incongruous sight on Wednesday morning, as volunteer actors playing Mary and Joseph walked in procession in front of the U.S. Supreme Court with Baby Jesus (a 4 - month - old).

«We got together and decided that the best tribute to Bill Wingate was to try to continue the work he was doing and attempt to keep the walks through Wingate Prairie alive,» said Margaret Marchi, a volunteer with the McHenry County Defenders and a co-author on several publications about natural gardening with Wingate.

In the 2010 senatorial special election in Massachusetts, both Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley deployed tools that leveraged the internet to improve the classic on - the - ground campaign activities of block - walking and phone - banking, connecting individual volunteers with information from the Democratic Voter Activation Network and the Republican Voter Vault.

They had software on iPhones and BlackBerries that drew on their voter target list and used a volunteer's GPS location to provide a list of which doors to knock on, a script for interactions with voters and a form to fill out responses, eliminating the need for paper get - out - the - vote walk sheets.

Just as campaigns send out «walk lists» of potential supporters for volunteers to visit based on the voter file, they could provide volunteers with an «email list» of neighbors for them to contact directly.

The Obama campaign relied on volunteer enthusiasm to a remarkable degree, with hundreds of thousands of people downloading «walk lists» of houses to visit in their neighborhoods and phone numbers to call.

For an example, in the 2010 senatorial special election in Massachusetts, both Republican Scott Brown and Democrat Martha Coakley deployed tools that leveraged the internet to improve the classic on - the - ground campaign activities of block - walking and phone - banking, connecting individual volunteers with information from the Democratic Voter Activation Network (now NGP / VAN) and the Republican Voter Vault.

The 2008 and 2012 Obama campaigns relied on volunteer enthusiasm to a remarkable degree, with hundreds of thousands of people downloading «walk lists» of houses to visit in their neighborhoods and phone numbers to call.

The researchers collected the brain activity — five additional sensors were placed on the volunteers» faces to allow researchers to screen for the impact of random movement, including eye blinks — and then mapped the signals back to the brain to determine how specific parts of the brain are involved in discrete tasks associated with walking, said Trieu Phat Luu, co-first author and a post-doctoral researcher in the Noninvasive Brain - Machine Interface System Laboratory at UH.

With the exoskeleton optimized for torque support on just one ankle, 11 volunteers experienced a 24 % reduction in energy expenditure, on average, while walking.

Armed with particle detectors, volunteers measured their pollution exposure as they took a total of 584 trips either by taxi, car, bus, bicycle or just plain walking on Marylebone Road in central London and in surrounding areas over the course of three weeks in April and May of 2003.

On my last walk, I was out with a happy pup and a woman turns to me and says: «Wow that's one excited dog... it's amazing what you volunteers are doing.»

Now Holt volunteers at the shelter by walking the dogs and spending time with the felines in the cat facility, and every Saturday evening she takes care of the ACAS cats being showcased at the Aiken PetSmart Store on Whiskey Road.

Update 4/18/18: A little nervous on walk from vet's office with volunteer but warms up.

With our volunteers, he is friendly, walks well on leash and listens.

Outside of his volunteer work with Love - A-Bull, Danny owns Padded Paws ATX, where he maintains a private client base for board and trains, dog walking and one - on - one lessons.

They also partner with RuffTail Runners, a program where running Team Spiridon takes along a shelter dog on their daily runs and walks to give volunteers and shelter works a break!

Bob enjoys serving on the board of Little Traverse Bay Humane Society and volunteering regularly whether its making a run to rescue animals, helping with shelter maintenance or walking dogs.

On the weekend volunteers would come in and help with shelter duties and during the week volunteers would help clean and walk the dogs.

We rely on our dedicated volunteers to socialize and walk our animals, interact with the public and share our mission for helping find our dogs and cats loving homes.

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, special fundraising events, and FOTAS Fix - a-Pet; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 is directly related to their efforts; and

When I returned from a two week volunteer stint at Best Friends Animal Society, I walked in the door of my home and found Bill sitting with Pepper on his foot and Nan with Parker on her knee.

Our volunteers begin with clicker training in the kennels and work their way up to loose - leash walking on property.

Today Mr. Salomon enjoys walks on the beach with foster parents Cathy and Phil and Bogey, a six - year - old Shepherd / Golden Retriever mix they adopted from Little Shelter in Huntington, Long Island, where they also volunteer.

But today, with the hard work and dedicated support of so many volunteers, he is starting to walk with confidence on the grass.

The FOTAS volunteers, who work on bookkeeping, social media, and special fundraising events; who work with FOTAS Fix - a-Pet and curbing the population of community cats; who organize and work on special fundraising and on - site events; who foster mamma dogs and cats and all their progeny, who care for animals designated for transfer; who shuffle animals to off - site adoption events; who greet the public and man the front desk, walk the dogs, love up the cats, work with play groups, and show animals to potential adopters — the dramatic and steady increase in the Shelter's live release rate since 2009 (84 % so far this year) is directly related to their efforts; and

However, shelter staff and volunteers know the dogs on a personal level, most work with them on a daily basis — they walk them, feed them, and clean their kennels.

Some walk the dogs on the trails around the property, often stopping by the lobby to hang out and hobnob with other volunteers and visitors.

Denise and her team of trainers and apprentices volunteer their time each week to work with the dogs on training commands or simply teaching them to walk on a leash.

This active couple wanted dogs to take on long daily walks and eventually take with them to do volunteer work in hospice care.

She volunteers at the Seattle Animal Shelter walking dogs and working on the behavior team where she works with dogs that have behavior issues.

To accomplish this, our highly trained and dedicated staff and volunteers engage our pets in activities such as one - on - one play, play groups, play with a variety of toys, exposure to sounds and smells, opportunities to learn new skills, positive reinforcement, as well as many walks, belly rubs and cuddles.

Call up your local shelter and volunteer to visit with the pets and take the dogs on a much needed walk!

I volunteer at the Leesburg Humane Society and I need lots of help.Once you spend a little time with these animal outcasts, you are hooked on wanting to care for them, even if it's just a 15 - minute walk outside the cage area for each pair of dogs.These animals are here because they were abused, neglected, not cared for and not loved.

Person after person walking through waist - high waters with animals on their shoulders; families sleeping outside emergency shelters to be with their pets; and, rescuers saving pets while animal welfare personnel and volunteers provide lifesaving round - the - clock care are just a few examples.

Train staff to be alert to signs of respiratory infection, and provide written and oral instructions for all staff members and volunteers letting them know what to do if they notice a dog with signs of respiratory disease (e.g. don't take that dog for a walk, notify medical staff, post a sign on the dog's run)

Our volunteers visit, play with and walk the dogs on a daily basis while they wait for their forever homes.

Adult Volunteers walk our Adult dogs to provide exercise, enrichment, as well as work with them on simple commands and social behavior...

The dogs are given two scenic walks a day along the Iowa River by loyal volunteers, indoor kennels with beds and toys, large outdoor kennels, too, on a daily basis, as well as play time with other dogs.

We also have fewer volunteers coming in to walk and socialize with dogs and cats at the South Jersey Regional Animal Shelter, which means long, quiet days for our homeless pets.I know it's a bit of a sacrifice to take on the task of housebreaking a dog when it's cold and nasty outside, but many of our dogs are adults that already are trained.

15 % Discount on Workshops and Free Lectures Free 4x5 Tintype Studio Portrait Session (Only for Volunteers) 10 % Discount on Film Processing at LTI 10 % Discount on Facility Rental Members Exhibition at Soho Photo Gallery Private Studio Visit at one of NYC's most esteemed Artist Studios (Date and Artist to be Announced) Private Walk Through with Artist at one of NYC's Top Photo Galleries (Date and Galley to be Announced)

One Mile Film (5,280 feet of 35 mm film negative and print taped to the mile - long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors — the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints of all kinds and put gum on the filmstrip — it was driven on by baby stroller and trash can wheels and was traced by art students — people wrote messages on the film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the film emulsion lines drawn down much of the filmstrip by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers — the walk way surfaces of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the film; filmed images shot by Peter West — filmed Parkour performances by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez — running on rooftops by Deb Berman and Jwest — film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line by art students and volunteers) 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds 35 mm negative and film print transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned and produced by Friends of the High Line and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation

Wayne was painting in a small widow's walk on the top of his house, and when I visited him the friend who had brought me there volunteered that Wayne had a story to go with each painting.

I remember those days as full of fun, inspiration, ideas and intense experiences in nature: walking together to Schumacher college in Dartington for lectures in the gentle Devon rain, intense discussions with various eco-luminaries around Helena Norberg - Hodges's kitchen table, visiting farm project volunteers in remote Ladakhi villages, reading Joanna Macy, and hiking on Dartmoor in the snow.

Our lawyers collaborate with local and regional legal services organizations on a host of projects, including: representing victims of domestic violence at final hearings on protective orders; staffing and operating walk - in clinics for indigent clients; handling intake of new clients for organizations; and training volunteers to handle cases in areas such as immigration, asylum, elder law, domestic violence and family law.

PTA and parent volunteers are very active and support the school with many fun activities like field trips wellness activities walks to school tasting events winter rumpus evenings movie nights international nights and so on.

The volunteer coach sent the photo (right) and wrote: «The young boy walking beside me is Promo Thapa, a physically challenged kid I coach on the race hill at Sun Peaks, with dreams of making it big in alpine skiing at the Para Olympics.

Volunteers work one - on - one with each child in the league, helping them swing at the ball and travel around the bases — even if they are unable to walk.