My Nonprofit Reviews

My family has been participating with the Dog Alliance for years. . My daughter took a dog camp with Susan Windham when my daughter was only nine years old. Years later, Susan is still there. We have been consistently impressed with Susan's kindness to dogs and humans, and my daughter took camp with Susan several times.

When she was older, my daughter took regular dog training classes with the Dog Alliance for her chihuahua mix. (at least five classes, maybe more, all were excellent) My daughter and her dog especially loved the agility classes with Kathleen Reish. Now, years later, my daughter has been able to volunteer at the Dog Alliance at the camps and on outings. We are also raising a puppy who will some day be a service dog.

When you walk in the door, you may be greeted by Neenah at the front desk - a delightful, kind, professional woman who started at the Dog Alliance as a volunteer and liked it so much she got a job at the Dog Alliance.

Our experience as puppy raisers and volunteers has been excellent. Susan (the wonderful camp teacher) has been absolutely incredible and supportive for our dog and for our daughter. Debi Kraker, the executive director, is an exceptional dog trainer and administrator - Debi is kind, knowledgeable, and effective.

We had a rough time for a few weeks when our service dog in training puppy and our daughter got sick at the same time. Susan Windham met us after hours, and took our foster puppy from us get the puppy healthy and we could take care of our daughter. Susan figured out what was wrong with our foster puppy (food allergy) and helped us by providing the resources needed to support our foster puppy's health.

As an organization for volunteers, the Dog Alliance has been flexible, fair, and downright wonderful. This was in huge contrast with fostering for another local animal organization that gave us much less support. As clients, for camp and classes, we have been amazed at how much we have learned. Even experienced dog owners can learn a lot from the Dog Alliance.

Volunteer puppy raisers have weekly classes, outings, email and phone support, supplies, basically whatever support we need in order to train our foster puppy to eventually become a service dog. We are glad that the Dog Alliance is part of our lives, and we are grateful for the staff and volunteers that make the Dog Alliance special.