“Keith, if you don’t do something, we’re going to kill it.”

Keith Milby, owner and operator of Gone to the Dogs Daycare, hears that a lot.

Milby is the last chance for some of society’s most exploited, neglected and abused.

The Western graduate, who majored in marketing, worked for 16 years in sales. He’s now working at his dream job and rescuing some of man’s best friends.

Most dogs that Milby takes in are rescued from abusive homes.

Milby and his employees, such as Diane Towson, go a step beyond the daycare by fostering and training the rescued dogs so they can place them into good families.

People are less likely to give up dogs that have been trained, so his efforts prevent dogs from being put to sleep, he said.

Milby usually fosters high-risk dogs, which are dogs that are older than one year. Those are the dogs least likely to be adopted, and he tries to keep them from being put to sleep.

“It’s very gratifying,” he said. “I work usually 12 to 13 hours a day and love every minute of it.”

At Milby’s cage-free facility, dogs run free. Unlike traditional boarding businesses, the cage-free environment teaches dogs how to be better behaved.