Reserve your troop’s next adventure with Dallas Pets Alive and the Humane Society of Dallas County! All Girl Scout programs include a combination of educational content, hands-on activities, and exploration at the adoption container and/or shelter, and are designed to fill all badge requirements to earn the corresponding Girl Scout badge.
Donation Amount: $10 per person
No minimum number of girls needed. All three badges are available at each location, but please check our hours and days of operation before coming. No reservation needed, but highly encouraged.
For questions or date availability, email Ashley.Morgan@dallaspetsalive.org.
Choose from the options below to book a program and earn your badge!
Animal Observer Badge
Girls learn how shelter staff learn about animals by watching them.
Activities
Meet an Adoptable Animal Observation Sheet
- Observe a dog or cat for 5 minutes without interacting
- What is the animal doing?
- How is it moving?
- What emotions do you think it is feeling?
- Read to the animals and observe
- Tales to Tails
- Read to animals at the shelter
- Draw the animal
- Circle behaviors observed (sleeping, playing, sniffing, grooming, etc.)
- Discuss what those behaviors might mean
- Observe their own pet (or neighborhood wildlife) and complete an observation journal