Puppies Behind Bars
 United States  / New York  |  Animals/Wildlife

Dedicated to training prison inmates to raise puppies to be guide dogs for the blind.

Dr. Thomas Lane, a veterinarian in Florida, thought that prison inmates would make excellent puppy raisers, and started the first guide-dog/prison program. Not only do inmates have unlimited time to spend with the puppies, but they benefit from the responsibility of being puppy raisers in ways that are especially important to their rehabilitation: they learn patience, what it is like to be completely responsible for a living being, how to give and receive unconditional love. PBB strives to meet the current needs of the communities in which we work and has expanded its goals accordingly. To help meet this demand, PBB added the training of explosive detection canines (EDCs) to its program.

Inmates training

Service dogs

Explosive detection canines

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