Homie · Issue 03 · Fall 2026
Shelter volunteers · the same app, volunteer mode
Fig. 01 · Scout, run 4, Aurora Municipal
Kennel card: “reactive”
Volunteer mode is a verified context on the same Homie login fosters use. Anchored to your shelter, not to any rescue.
You are
→ Approved by a city or county shelter to walk, handle or run playgroups.
→ In the building often enough to know the dogs by name.
→ Tired of watching good dogs age out because nobody outside saw them.
→ Not rescue staff. Your role is anchored to the shelter.
You’d use it to
→ Open a passport for a dog while you’re standing at the kennel.
→ Record what you saw next to what the card claims.
→ Attach photos and video, held from public until a coordinator checks.
→ Elevate the dog so rescues in range see it and pull.
→ Watch your dogs move: draft → elevated → pulled → home.
Fig. 02 · Yard time, Tuesday
Photo: D. Khan
Fig. 03 · Volunteer home · Fig. 04 · Field intake · live fragments
Identity
Shelter · name · kennel · breed + confidence · age · deadline
Claims
Shelter tag vs. your rebuttal, side by side, never overwritten
Playgroup
DPFL play style · social status · role · markers · tools
Medical signs
Visible only · limp, cough, skin, weight class
Media
Photos + video, private bucket, safety hold
Elevate
T3 → T2, visible to every rescue in range
four minutes at the kennel. that’s it.
Fig. 05 · Whizz, run 9, on a Tuesday walk
What the rescue sees · Sourcing · Hounds & Rock Co.
Denver · 75 mi
Fig. 06 · Your passport, as it lands on a coordinator’s desk
Every field carries your name and your role at the time you wrote it. That provenance is why rescues can act on it, and why, over time, accurate advocacy raises your standing and inaccurate advocacy quietly lowers it. Nothing you wrote is ever deleted; corrections are added on top.
Fig. 07 · Scout, 11 weeks after the pull, with his new mom
Fig. 08 · Two Aurora alumni. Both were “no other dogs” on the card.
“The people inside the shelters know things nobody else knows. Homie gives that knowledge somewhere to go.”
Also in your mode: report a lost dog you’ve spotted · chip lookup at /found · post a sighting on any reported-lost page · switch back to foster any time
Getting started
0 mi
Draft & elevate
Reliable
50 mi
Add a 2nd shelter
Trusted
150 mi
Media skips the hold
Mentor
400 mi
Verify new advocates, partner perks
+25
A rescue pulls your dog
+10
A transport leg you drove
+15
Confirmed volunteer shift
−
A claim the rescue found wrong
1
Join with your phone. A text code, your name, email, post code. No password.
2
Pick your shelter. Search 1,251 indexed shelters. Say how you’re approved there: staff contact, volunteer badge, or a Mentor who’ll vouch.
3
Start drafting while you wait. Drafts are yours immediately. Elevation switches on when a Homie reviewer confirms with the shelter, usually within a few days.
4
Already a foster? Same login. Choose Volunteer at sign-in or switch in your profile. Verification is per shelter and travels with you.
Fig. 09 · A mentor vouches for a new advocate. Both were volunteers first.
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