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Prison Pet Partnership enriches the lives of incarcerated individuals, animals, and the community through the human-animal bond.
PPP's Paroled Pets program provides dogs that are unable to be credentialed as service, facility, or therapy dogs an opportunity to be adopted by a loving family. By partnering with local shelters and rescues, the program also provides dogs and cats (some at risk of euthanasia) opportunity for intentional training and handling with the goal of adoption. The program also satisfies the hands-on training requirement for Program Participants pursuing Dog Handler I Certification.
Paroled Pets live with their assigned trainer while receiving training and handling - building on the human-animal bond and creating positive mental health impacts for both the trainer and the paroled pet. This exchange of trust and love is rehabilitating and increases the likelihood for success in adoption.
Prison Pet Partnership enriches the lives of incarcerated individuals, animals, and the community through the human-animal bond.
PPP's Paroled Pets program provides dogs that are unable to be credentialed as service, facility, or therapy dogs an opportunity to be adopted by a loving family. By partnering with local shelters and rescues, the program also provides dogs and cats (some at risk of euthanasia) opportunity for intentional training and handling with the goal of adoption. The program also satisfies the hands-on training requirement for Program Participants pursuing Dog Handler I Certification.
Paroled Pets live with their assigned trainer while receiving training and handling - building on the human-animal bond and creating positive mental health impacts for both the trainer and the paroled pet. This exchange of trust and love is rehabilitating and increases the likelihood for success in adoption.
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Support adoption and rescue. Why go to a dog breeder, cat breeder or pet store to buy a dog or buy a cat when you can adopt?
Why should you adopt?
Dog adoption and cat adoption saves lives. Adopt a dog or adopt a cat and you'll have a friend for life.
What is the difference between adopting a dog, adopting a cat, adopting a kitten or adopting a puppy versus getting dogs for sale, cats for sale, puppies for sale or kittens for sale from a dog breeder or a cat breeder?
When someone is breeding puppies or breeding kittens, they are creating new dogs and cats who need homes. Some people are interested in a very specific breed of dog, cat, puppy or kitten and they think the only way to find that specific breed is to buy a dog for sale or buy a cat for sale from a puppy breeder or a kitten breeder. Yet animal shelters are filled with dogs and cats who must find homes.
So rather than buying a dog or puppy for sale from a dog breeder or buying a cat or kitten for sale from a cat breeder, we encourage people to adopt a dog, adopt a cat, adopt a puppy or adopt a kitten at their local animal shelter, SPCA, humane society or pet rescue group.