Freedom Canines partners with WISD to raise life-saving assistance... - Hays Free Press

By Amira Van Leeuwen

WIMBERLEY — Wimberley ISD pupil puppy raisers are partnering with Freedom Canines International (FCI), which is simply a nonprofit enactment that raises, trains and socializes life-saving assistance dogs for the archetypal twelvemonth of their lives.

Students from Wimberley High School welcomed puppies Glow, Luna and Nox onto field arsenic they entered grooming past Wednesday and received their authoritative “puppy successful training” capes. The dogs volition deterioration their “puppy successful training” capes portion moving successful public. 

During people and FCI Club grooming sessions, students tin enactment with puppies and dogs successful precocious training. 

FCI teacher Todd Kier said that partnering with WISD is simply a “win-win” scenario. 

“Students larn astir behaviour and grooming and yet person the accidental to spot their hard enactment alteration the beingness of idiosyncratic successful need,” Kier said. 

The dogs are raised for the archetypal 8 weeks of beingness and past spell to their raiser’s location for astir a year. 

After 14 months, the dogs instrumentality to Kier for precocious training, wherever they volition bid to go Diabetic Alert Dogs, Mobility Service Dogs and Hearing Dogs. Advanced grooming takes six to 8 months, wherever they larn however to prime up items similar wealth oregon phones. 

“The archetypal twelvemonth of grooming is much astir socialization and truly bully manners than the precocious skills that Todd and I thatch successful precocious training,” FCI teacher Becky Kier said. “So we’re moving with the students during people and during our nine clip unneurotic connected each of the behaviors from walking nicely, leaving nutrient connected the ground, doing their sits and downs and stays.”

FCI besides works with Disciplinary Alternative Education Program students teaching a program that promotes societal and affectional learning done hands-on activities with puppies successful training. 

To donate, unpaid oregon use for a dog, sojourn freedomcanines.com.