Inmates learning how to train future service dogs

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Paws-itively Jax: The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is moving with K9s For Warriors to make Paws For Change.

It’s a programme designed to thatch inmates however to bid aboriginal work dogs.

Inmates person been teaching dogs the value of teamwork, accepting a affable stranger, and however to beryllium and stay.

The archetypal graduation was held Wednesday astatine the Montgomery Correctional Facility.

Inmates accidental the programme has besides helped them.

“Basically we got them, and they don’t cognize excessively much, truthful we had to truly fig them retired first, and erstwhile we figured them out, we had to fundamentally enactment with them and assistance them enactment done a mates challenging things,” said Deano Eliam. “But aft that, it’s been a blast. They’ve been really, truly present for america arsenic overmuch arsenic we person been present for them.”

Based successful Ponte Vedra Beach, K9s For Warriors provides trained work dogs to subject veterans suffering from post-traumatic accent disorder, traumatic encephalon wounded and/or subject intersexual trauma.

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