This one is kind of heavy. It’s a short video by Current about “Prison Puppy Therapy” a program in which female prison inmates take care of a puppy for a year. It’s therapeutic for the women (many of them mothers) and it helps socialize and pre-train the dogs. After a year, the puppies graduate on to a professional training program and become life-saving law enforcement dogs. The dogs in this video are cute, but the their relationships with the women that raise them is really heartwarming.
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Wonderful! The video encapsulates how precious our relationships with dogs are. It reminds me of my first Afghan Hound, Ralph. I got him at eight weeks when I was in college. I learned what these incarcerated women did: responsibility, loving and caring and self-discipline. Later I had five children. I doubt I could have coped patiently and responsibly if Ralph hadn’t “trained” me!
Aw, Christine, that’s a nice story.
If I were a woman in prison, I would not want to raise a dog for the government’s use. I love dogs with all my heart, but it is manipulative of the government to use prisoners to raise dogs for free, when the government would otherwise have to pay for this service. This program may in fact be beneficial for the prisoners, but so are many other social, spiritual, and emotional enrichments that the government is not concerned with providing. This is not a “heartwarming” story; rather, it says a lot about how our media portrays our government.