Take a Shelter Dog on a Field Trip During Your Visit to Kauai
If you are an animal lover who wants to give back during your vacation to Kauai, I have just the thing for you. Through the Kauai Humane Society’s program, Shelter Dogs on Field Trips, visitors to Kauai can “check out” a dog for a day. Simply come to the Kauai Humane Society, where you will meet their big-hearted dogs. Then, you will be matched up with one to take out.
I’d rent a dog.
I don’t want to own one but I’d rent a dog for a day. Walk on the trail & stuff
My wife and I went to Turks and Caicos last year and they do the same thing. It’s pretty crazy, people are lined up at the shelter each morning to get a dog to walk around with all day.
And interestingly, the words for “hello” and “good-bye” are the same for Hawaiian dogs — “woof.”
If I do that, I’m going to end up having 5 dogs after 1 vacation.
This. I like this.
I did this last time I was in Kauai! It was an easy process. I took a Catahoula Leopard Dog named Naomi to the beach. She was quite nervous, especially in the car, but I hope she enjoyed getting away from the shelter for a few hours.
So they basically have a dog lending library? Why is this not a thing everywhere? I’d like to make a complaint to the manager of…dogs about this.
And then my sister will take me in there and I will pick an ugly one that turns out to be an alien. Not happening again!
There used to be a sandwich shop on Maui that loaned out dogs for the day. The best part: you didn’t pick the dog, the dog picked you.
Great idea! As long as the shelter can curate the choice (avoiding complicated dogs that have special needs) given to visitors. I hope the idea grows in other places. I’d love to be able to get a dog for a weekend.
Awesome to the max! How do we make this happen on big island?
You should be able to rent dogs like renting a bike for a day. The shelter gets funding. The dogs get walked. The human gets the happy.
#Everybody wins.