How We Help Foster and Shelter Dogs at Train Walk Poop
At Train Walk Poop, we help all of our paying customers. We also help dogs in need.
Dogs have given us so much. This is one way we give back.
How it works
- Local shelters and foster groups send us dogs that need a little training to help them find a forever home.
- We train each dog for at least one week. Dogs that are having a harder time finding a home get more time.
- When our trainers are slow and there is a gap in the schedule, we fill it with these dogs.
- It costs the foster family nothing.
- Foster parents can come to training sessions with us. They learn how to help the dog they are fostering now, and every dog they foster in the future.
We do more of this every year. We have helped dozens of foster dogs find their forever homes.
Working with the South Salt Lake shelter
We partner with the dogs at the South Salt Lake shelter, and we want to partner with more every year. They bring us some of their trickiest cases. We help the dogs, and we help the shelter staff learn how to work with them, so the dogs are as adoptable as possible while they wait.
Sometimes a shelter dog even comes in for training. That gets them out of a stressful kennel and into a place where they can have fun and learn new skills that help them get adopted.
Success story: Batman
Batman started out as a homeless street dog, picked up on a reservation in New Mexico. He came to us as a foster, and Ryan adopted him.
He became one of the most loved dogs in Utah. He went everywhere with Ryan, and he was on the news. He helped train hundreds of other dogs in our social classes and as a distraction dog in training sessions. Videos of him in our ads and posts have been seen more than a million times.
Success story: Taz
Taz was a high drive, intense pit bull. He was very sweet with people, but very intense with other dogs. He trained with us for about five weeks.
He was a tricky one. We took things slowly, and we used a muzzle in social classes to keep everyone safe. In the end, his foster parent adopted him. We are so happy they did.
Be part of it
Seeing the adoption photos get posted online is one of our favorite things as a team. We have team members who adopted their own foster dogs, too.
If you join us, you can be part of stories like these.
