At the owner’s call, Bruno emerges from the trailer with a bandana around his neck. “Congratulations on Bruno,” Gabby says to the proud owner of a brown Chihuahua that just graduated from service-dog training.
No volunteer has ever been bitten, Street Dogz says, and that doesn’t change today. The big ones won’t bite it’s the small ones you need to watch out for, advises their owner as he lets the volunteers through the chain-link fence. “He loves it down there,” says his owner.Ī loud family of dogs: Junior, Chucky, Hanky, Darth, and a cat named Kit living between two trailers receive eight zip-lock bags of dog food and one of cat food. The shy dog took one of his new treats and hid under the deck of his trailer. Rocky, a 15-month old pitbull, received a large bag of food and doggie treats. On August 11, we tagged along with volunteers Leann Maiolo and her daughter Gabby as they distributed supplies at a trailer park in northeast Las Vegas. They also give out supplies like dog shoes, coats, and beds, as well as help coordinate and fund medical care for pets, spaying and neutering, and even emergency sheltering.
Now the nonprofit has 15 regular volunteers and distributes some 1,500 pounds of dog food every month to homeless and low-income pet owners. Not a small goal, given the valley’s high rate of homelessness. Her mission: to help feed the pets of homeless and low-income people in Las Vegas. An afternoon with the volunteers of Street Dogz, helping disadvantaged and homeless petsĬlark County Detention Center welfare case worker Cheryl Noori started Street Dogz with two friends during Thanksgiving weekend of 2014.
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