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May 14th, 2008 at 7:54 pm
Everyone has opinions, ideas, experiences and more that are worth hearing about—worth sharing.
Do you believe these programs are important? If so, why?
Do you believe offenders don’t deserve to be able to be involved in training dogs? If so, why?
I encourage you to let me know what you think about the programs, its people, the dogs, or?
Just please be respectful.
May 31st, 2008 at 10:17 pm
I only know about Greys, I have rescued 4, love them all, the best dogs I have ever had. I think these dogs are great for the prison environment. They are so used to confinement and routine. It would be easy for them to adjust The added human bonding and attention that they would be receiving in prison is a added plus for these easy going, laid back loving dogs .
July 3rd, 2008 at 1:32 am
I’m studing cell dogs program to introduce this type of rihabilitation in an italian prison. I hope to can give my contribute to your website.
November 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
I am currently working in the “new Leash on life” prison program in Pender County, NC.
Specifically, we (Monty’s Home) began our first Pawsitive Pets Prison Program just a few weeks ago. We are looking at graduation the 20th of this month. It is an amazing thing to do for the dogs. We have 5 that we evaluated from animal control. We used Sue sternberg’s
assess a pet. I am interested in seeing how this first 8 weeks goes so that we
can expand our program to other counties in the future. Our program director and
guru is Barbara Raab and she does an outstanding job with organizing and raising money
for this program.
I look forward to reading your book.
February 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pm
I have been rescuing greyhounds for 17 years. My concern about the prison dogs program is that retired racers have been through enough as it is - must they now be placed in programs which are basically experimental and possibly may expose the dogs to personality disorders which could prove abusive to the dogs? I was told there was a program at a prison in Kansas wherein the dogs were being sexually molested by the prisoners. I have to question the practice of allowing prisoners to keep the dogs with them 24/7. I feel there should be supervision, at least for an initial period - until the prisoners have demonstrated the capacity to treat the dog with kindness and only using positive reinforcement training methods.
Can someone please give me some idea of how these programs operate in terms of how a prisoner qualifies for getting a dog and what type of training is given the prisoner?