Friends of Animals in Need, Inc./Lucky Dog Program

We are a 501C-3 originally formed to help our previous shelter with medical expenses for shelter animals. At the request of the warden of the prison, we started the Lucky Dog Program in the Hutchinson Correctional Facility. We are licensed as a non-facility shelter and the prison acts as our foster. We pull our dogs from kill shelters and take from the public when the dog is in jeopardy. We have fourteen to fifteen dogs inside the prison at any time. We temperament test, spay/neuter, vaccinate, heartworm test (if positive, we treat), and worm the dogs prior to going into the program. The dogs are kept on heartworm preventive each month along with flea and tick preventive during the season. We are four volunteers who love animals and want to save dogs from being euthanized due to the numbers in shelters. We realize that most of the dogs in shelters are there, not because they are bad but because no one took the time to train them or work to modify unwanted behaviors. We believe in positive training methods and use treats and praise for the desired behavior and ignore the undesired behavior.