in this field that take the animals to hope and nurse them to get strong enough to come down and rehome. without volunteers, i would have to be honest to say this wouldn't be much more than a pound. we thank god that we have the number of committed people coming down and helping us out, it makes all the difference in the world. >> when you want to come in and volunteer, you go through a general orientation, about two hours. there is a lot of flexibility. and the various programs available, are baseline dog walking. you can work with the cats. you can work with tony's kitty rescue, with the small animals and guinea pigs and birds and chickens. >> you always have an appreciative audience. >> do you feel that what you have learned here helped you with your own dogs? >> the training they don't have? yes. and it's things that you learn, we usually outlive our dogs and every time you get a new one, you have skills to teach them. >> one of the programs is training program and it's staffed by a member of the community and one of the programs she has is dog socialization. >> we started this prog

our program is set up, the mission is we rehome homeless and abandoned animals. they come from all walks of life. basically, owners give us, the predominant is from local couy shelters. >> and you have a nice lab he with you whose name is easel. tell us about easel. how did you get him? >> easel came to us from the franklin county shelter about a week or two ago. he is 1 to 2 years old. his nickname came from the fact that he has three legs. we're not sure what happened to him in his prior life, but he is exceptionally special dog and has no idea that he is missing a third leg. >> not used to being on tv either. >> he's not. >> what you do is you take care of them. you don't kill them. you provide medical care and rehab services for the pets no matter what condition they're in. >> this is true. anybody coming into our rescue, we are no kill, is is -- so if they come in with medical issue, with treat them and take care of them to full ex-extent possible, rehab, and get them readopted out. all of our animals, again, that's why we rely soly on donations from private

in this field that take the animals to hope and nurse them to get strong enough to come down and rehome. without volunteers, i would have to be honest to say this wouldn't be much more than a pound. we thank god that we have the number of committed people coming down and helping us out, it makes all the difference in the world. >> when you want to come