Learning and Teaching Love

Training is going really well with Zoe!  Her inmate trainer says that Zoe has gotten the hang of sit, down, rollover, paws up, bang, play dead and belly! She's a little slow responding to release, heel, stay, and jump but her trainer knows that she'll have this figured out in no time!

Zoe is too cute when her trainer says bang she'll fall over from a down position as if dead.  Her trainer can lift her paw and count 1,2,3 and say "aw, you've been shot" he'll rub the treat at her nose then lift her lip and drop it in her mouth while saying "look you came back to life" and she'll bounce right up!

Her inmate trainer says that Zoe works so hard and is willing to give so much.  She has given him a purpose and he wakes up with a smile every day.  She helps him get through his day and he helps her prepare for her future home.

Her secondary handler writes in to say that training Zoe is a beautiful opportunity, one which he is grateful for.  She is quick and clever and an absolute joy to be around!

Her alternate handler wrote in to say that his time with Zoe is immeasurable.  It's immeasurable in a sense of feeling alive and responsible and most importantly companionship.   He says that he's been incarcerated for over nine years and that he feels his self pride, dignity and self worth creeping back into existence.