A golden/black Lab-mix has been matched with a disabled man after the dog graduated from the Canine Companions for Independence program at a Shelby correctional facility.
IT’S a common scenario for many a harassed mother - you’re in the supermarket and your little darling is playing up. But forget the “cool-off corner”.
Meet Virgil, a four year old German Sheppard who has been with the Houston County Sheriff’s Department for the past year and a half.
EAST ALTON - Dave Kuehnel doesn’t think of himself as a hero, but an ordinary man who rescued a woman being mauled by two pit bulls. “It’s human nature to come to the aid of someone who needs it,” Kuehnel said.
Since mid-June, Ginger Turnmire and seven of her fellow inmates have been without the four-legged charges that have lifted spirits at a prison for women in Memphis. Dogs — plucked from an animal shelter and delivered to the prison for six to eight weeks of training to make them more adoptable — have been missed.