Freedom Dogs

Canine Allies

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:46:41 +0000

Canine Allies is the name of our Oklahoman program at Cimarron Correctional Facility. We have 6 dogs in training and already sent one dog (Major) to a forever home with Ms. Wesson, who used to be the case manager over the Parole A Pet program when it first started. Three of the other dogs (Lexus, Copper, and Big Jake) are adopted and will go to their forever homes on September 29. Dolly, Blue, and Sugar are still up for adoption! Check the Canine Allies Trainees out here: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.274578269308733.46762.204839612949266&type=3

Lions Boys Ranch program

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:44:19 +0000

The Lions Boys Ranch program is progressing well. One of the young men came to the house parents and asked to become our next trainer. He will be training a young beagle named Dixie beginning next week.

another training program

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:43:25 +0000

Cimarron Correctional Facility has 200+ Puerto Rican offenders. They have come to us asking for another training program for these offenders. Most of them do not speak any English; however, we do have a translator. The past few weeks, we have been working on training methods with “people training” games. The men are picking up on everything extremely well and we will be brining 5 dogs in to them next week.

Training

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:42:17 +0000

Overall, training is going well. We are still trying to master the basics at this point. I want all of our handlers confident in teaching the basic AKC Canine Good Citizen skills before moving on to more advanced skills. I believe in setting up everyone for success. As soon as we move to that level, we can begin advertising some of our dogs as “service dogs in training.” Basically, we will give our dogs a great foundation and when they are adopted by their veteran handler, they will continue training in areas such as public access.

News about Laura Green

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:41:24 +0000

Laura Green is our case manager over the Canine Allies program. She is doing a wonderful job and has been contacting media for us! Several news stations and news papers are interested in doing a story about the Canine Allies program at Cimarron Correctional facility. I should know more about this within the next few days.

Boys Ranch Article

admin — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:39:37 +0000

Cindy Sheets is writing an article about the program at the Lions Boys Ranch for “The Corridor” magazine. Bryan Larison (the Boys Ranch director) asked Cindy to write this article. It will focus on the benefit of the program for the boys and how what we do for the dogs is similar to what the Boys Ranch does for these young men. This will appear in the October issue.