In my last column, I wrote about the high-level canine training at Assistance Dogs of the West, the nationally recognized service dog training agency based in Santa Fe. Before those elite students ...

December means Christmas in the doggy day room at Logan Correctional Center, Illinois’ largest state prison for women. On a recent visit, there were dogs dressed in holiday sweaters or reindeer ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As two new residents trot into MCI-Framingham, they won’t be focused on serving time — they’ll learn to sit, stay and how to ...

Seven dogs graduated from the New Life K9s training program at the California Men's Colony on Thursday. The dogs are trained by inmates at the prison for about two years, learning how to be service ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On a rainy August afternoon, Assemblywoman Donna Lupardo was joined by service dogs and their owners to promote a free county-wide ...

People are often shocked when they learn that a fully trained service dog can cost as much as a new car, and a nice one at that. To the average person, these numbers seem unbelievable and a process ...

Chase Benoit, currently serving a sentence of 16 years to life at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center for murder, just concluded a year in which he mentored a promising puppy. Benoit trained Wendel, a ...

IT’S A PROGRAM TRULY GIVING PUPS A NEW LEASH ON LIFE AS THEY WALK THE CORRIDORS OF LOUISIANA PRISON. YEAH. THE PARTNERSHIP, A COLLABORATION WITH THE SPCA, THE DOG SCHOOL AND THE LOUISIANA CORRECTIONAL ...

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