May Volunteer of the Month

Congratulations to Susan Wesner, the May Volunteer of the Month!

Susan has been volunteering with Susquehanna Service Dogs since May 2014 as a puppy hugger helping to socialize our youngest service dogs in training. She first heard about SSD when she attended PawsAbilities, our canine festival. By 2015, she took our classes to become a puppy sitter.

After sitting new puppies SSD Geronimo, SSD Godiva, and SSD Guava as part of our 2x2 puppy sitting program, she was hooked.

Since then, she has supervised puppy socialization at our center in Grantville, PA and has helped canine eye clinics and other activities. She has also helped with litters in some of our whelping homes—clipping nails, cleaning up after the puppies, and more.

“Best of all is getting to work with the puppies on their early socialization and learning,” says Susan.

“As a sitter, I enjoy working with the dogs in public, and when I get the opportunity to sit a dog more than once, it’s fun to see how they have progressed. Knowing these puppies and dogs will someday help someone with things that I take for granted is why I continue volunteering.”

Thank you, Susan, for helping #DogsChangeLives!

Our volunteers collectively give over 40,000 hours per month to raise and sit puppies, help with public training, maintain our property, help with fundraising, and so much more! To give back to our volunteers who give us so much, we’re recognizing a volunteer each month. Selected by random drawing, volunteers of the month receive a gift card to local restaurants and businesses.

Want to join this group of amazing volunteers? Sign up today: https://www.keystonehumanservices.org/susquehanna-service-dogs/responsibilities-of-a-puppy-raiser.php