Press Releases

July 6, 2005
For Immediate Release
Media Contact (July 6): Michelle Pintar
Phone: (414) 431-6104
Contact (July 7): Dezarae Jones Hartwig
Phone: (414) 431-6159

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Ten-Year-Old “Animal Trainers” to Provide Dog Training
Demonstration to Daycare Students

MILWAUKEE – Several 3 to 5-year-olds will see first-hand how older children train dogs. Children and dogs from the Wisconsin Humane Society's People and Animals Learning (PAL) Program will demonstrate their new skills to the smaller children from Daycare Services for Children on Thursday, July 7 at 10 a.m.

WHAT:     
PAL participants ages 10 to 13 to demonstrate dog training skills to 3 to 5-year-olds.

WHEN:     
Thursday, July 7, 2005
10 a.m.

WHERE:     
Wisconsin Humane Society
4500 W. Wisconsin Ave.
Milwaukee , WI 53208

BACKGROUND:   
Over the three-week course of the PAL Program, PAL participants trained the dogs to perform a number of obedience cues including sit, down and heel. Through participation in PAL, youth at-risk learn the importance of kindness and compassion toward all living things.

The PAL Program was developed 12 years ago in response to the growing number of violent acts being committed toward people and animals in our community. Studies show those who are abused as a child are more likely to be abusive as adults. Studies also show there is a link between animal abuse and human violence.

PAL is a nationally recognized violence prevention program developed by the Wisconsin Humane Society to teach at-risk youth kindness and empathy.

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