Who is your favorite dog trainer?
23 October 2010
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Last night was Pawsitive Works’ first Gala Dinner fundraiser. It was a hit! With a dinner at 41 South, auction items from EZY Dog, Amara Spa, Coeur d’Alene Resort and more it couldn’t have been a more perfect night.
What is Pawsitive Works you say? Pawsitive Works works with at risk teens, through training shelter dogs both dog and teen benefit the community. Teens are taught positive dog training methods and work with one dog for 4 to 5 weeks, training sits, downs, leash walking and how to be polite. The dogs teach the teens responsibility, compassion and patience. See what the Daily Bee said about Pawsitive Works by clicking on the photo.
Pawsitive Works has been the dream of Karen Schumacher of Bonners Ferry for over 5 years. She has headed up this program in Bonners Ferry, Sandpoint and now the program will be having its first session in Coeur d’Alene this October. Next on the list is Spokane and Creston. These cities have been asking Karen to open programs in their cities too, so Pawsitive Works is looking for more funding and volunteers to be able to provide more of these programs. Currently Pawsitive Works is also working with different research groups in order to show how beneficial this program is for the youth and the dogs. This is the amazing part of the program: teens that have been in this program aren’t re-offending and dogs in this program become more adoptable. Both the teens and the dogs are performing a community service and changing a life.
If you are interested in learning more about Pawsitive Works go to their website, click on the photo to read an article about them in the Daily Bee or comment on this post – I am the Youth Adviser/Trainer for the Sandpoint program and would love to answer your questions!
