Dogs ready for adoption after doing training with criminals
TRI-CITIES -- KEPR is following up on the system that saves dogs that might have otherwise been put down. A program at the prison in Connell uses inmates to train the dogs to be more adoptable. Since it started in September, almost 100-dogs have been adopted out. This includes some that were too jumpy or too hyper to appeal to an average family. But the training has its limitations.
"So when a family adopts the dogs into their home, and they have dogs, they're out in the backyard. Now they don't know how to interact with those dogs necessarily because it wasn't part of their training," Angela Zilar, Executive Director of Tri-Cities Animal Control explains.
A lot of the dogs that have been adopted from the program are actually family members of inmates or staff at Coyote Ridge.
"So when a family adopts the dogs into their home, and they have dogs, they're out in the backyard. Now they don't know how to interact with those dogs necessarily because it wasn't part of their training," Angela Zilar, Executive Director of Tri-Cities Animal Control explains.
A lot of the dogs that have been adopted from the program are actually family members of inmates or staff at Coyote Ridge.
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