May 1, 2026 · 59 min · 31 segments
- In Episode 276, Panos and Luke sit down with Lisa Wray, who spent 16 years working and managing the shelter where Panos has volunteered for over a decade. - Lisa shares what it really takes to run a…
The things that I want, like at first, the way that I came to, to help out was like, "Hey, show me like the trouble dogs, the issue dogs, and, you know, let's just get them out for a walk, exercise them." You, you guys let me do a little bit more than what the other volunteers, so I'd like take the dogs along the rocks and take them to the park, long lead, big play times.
I don't know if this is gonna transpire." This, that could be very tricky when it comes to if there are any trainers listening to this going to a shelter or a rescue organization, it's well and good to like help the dog, but I think it's most important to help the staff, teach the volunteers, "Hey, this is, this is what you guys should be doing," and trying to keep some sort of consistency.
And, and look, and they, they still do quite good now, but it's like re-teaching everybody, where we were all on the journey together, we're all learning stuff and-
So like I wanna kind of go through, from all your years of experience, you know, managing a shelter-
... what could be, in term- like from a training and behavior perspective or enrichment, what could be maybe the number one, we'll go like a top three, but what would be like the f- the biggest thing that you reckon was a big change when implementing training to, to, um, a, a shelter?
The things that I want, like at first, the way that I came to, to help out was like, "Hey, show me like the trouble dogs, the issue dogs, and, you know, let's just get them out for a walk, exercise them." You, you guys let me do a little bit more than what the other volunteers, so I'd like take the dogs along the rocks and take them to the park, long lead, big play times.
I don't know if this is gonna transpire." This, that could be very tricky when it comes to if there are any trainers listening to this going to a shelter or a rescue organization, it's well and good to like help the dog, but I think it's most important to help the staff, teach the volunteers, "Hey, this is, this is what you guys should be doing," and trying to keep some sort of consistency.
And, and look, and they, they still do quite good now, but it's like re-teaching everybody, where we were all on the journey together, we're all learning stuff and-
So like I wanna kind of go through, from all your years of experience, you know, managing a shelter-
... what could be, in term- like from a training and behavior perspective or enrichment, what could be maybe the number one, we'll go like a top three, but what would be like the f- the biggest thing that you reckon was a big change when implementing training to, to, um, a, a shelter?
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