I just wanted to share for all dog fans out there. Our pending adoption has gone through. The best is the story.
She is a 2 year old Plott Hound. Her and her sister were found roaming the Kentucky suburbs. The neighbors would put out food and water for them and one morning a local who happened to live near by found both of them. They snuck into her kitchen through her dog door ate her dogs food and fell asleep on her floor. She was a volunteer for the Humane Society and contacted a friend of hers.
She is now in the Dawgs in Prison program in FL. If you have never heard of it the program, at this particular prison is run by the county with the local humane society manages the training, selects and screens the inmates.
All the dogs selected are screened for the program for the ability to become a family dog. Once selected they are put through a 8 week training program. Each dog has a 3 inmate team. All the dogs live with the inmates in barracks with the other dogs and their teams. The inmates are trained by an outside professional trainer. The dogs live with the inmates and they are responsible for care, feeding and training of the dog.
We have been waiting for years to find the right dog for our family the chance finally came. With our hectic schedules training a dog even a Plott from the start to the entire family would have been near impossible especially when you marry into a cat family and have a 7 year old.
She will be graduating 10/16 and be here 10/17. She will be trained in all the majors: sit, lay down, stay, heal, on and off leash commands, drop it, leave it, eat when told to, house and crate trained. She was tested with the inmates and our Humane Society contact in all our concerns. How she did with small children, challenging boundaries, barking and ease of transfer training to other people. She passed them all with flying colors.
It actually makes my family and I feel great not just because she is a rescue and she is getting a second chance. We are helping inmates at second chance when they finally leave prison to have a skill and profession they can pursue.
Now we just have to finish the fence.
She is a 2 year old Plott Hound. Her and her sister were found roaming the Kentucky suburbs. The neighbors would put out food and water for them and one morning a local who happened to live near by found both of them. They snuck into her kitchen through her dog door ate her dogs food and fell asleep on her floor. She was a volunteer for the Humane Society and contacted a friend of hers.
She is now in the Dawgs in Prison program in FL. If you have never heard of it the program, at this particular prison is run by the county with the local humane society manages the training, selects and screens the inmates.
All the dogs selected are screened for the program for the ability to become a family dog. Once selected they are put through a 8 week training program. Each dog has a 3 inmate team. All the dogs live with the inmates in barracks with the other dogs and their teams. The inmates are trained by an outside professional trainer. The dogs live with the inmates and they are responsible for care, feeding and training of the dog.
We have been waiting for years to find the right dog for our family the chance finally came. With our hectic schedules training a dog even a Plott from the start to the entire family would have been near impossible especially when you marry into a cat family and have a 7 year old.
She will be graduating 10/16 and be here 10/17. She will be trained in all the majors: sit, lay down, stay, heal, on and off leash commands, drop it, leave it, eat when told to, house and crate trained. She was tested with the inmates and our Humane Society contact in all our concerns. How she did with small children, challenging boundaries, barking and ease of transfer training to other people. She passed them all with flying colors.
It actually makes my family and I feel great not just because she is a rescue and she is getting a second chance. We are helping inmates at second chance when they finally leave prison to have a skill and profession they can pursue.
Now we just have to finish the fence.
Wish you good luck with the family member 