Jan Vega has been a volunteer at the Carson Animal Shelter in Gardena, California, for the past three years. "I started volunteering just for fun, excited to get dogs out of their kennels and give ...

Jacob Tumalan, 6, who has autism, began reading to pups after his aunt, Lisa Dekowski-Ferranti, brought him to Carson Animal Shelter in Gardena, where she and her daughter Lindsay volunteer.