First Blog EVER!!!

Hello,



This is the first blog I've ever done. I've never been much interested in blogs until my Aunt started doing one when she travels and I just love reading it! So, I've decided to give it a try myself.

I assume that most reading it, if anyone does, probably knows me but for anyone who somehow discovers this that doesn't know me I will give a little background on myself and why I'm doing this blog....



I am Lisa Rabine and I work/volunteer for an organization called Teacher's Pet. At Teacher's Pet we pair "at-risk" youth with shelter/rescue dogs for an eight to 13 week training program. The kids learn about stress reduction and management of dogs, identifing breeds and characteristics, and put themselves in the "dogs paws". They learn about the basics of dog training and teach the dogs to sit, stay, laydown, leave-it, and several other commands, and some really cool tricks too.



I have recently started working with a group of kids that are incarcerated. As of now I don't feel comfortable giving the name of the location or the names of the kids. I also will not say what the kids are serving time for and really what they are there for is not important. What is important is what they go on to do from now on and when they are released.



So, right now I guess I will post after each training day and whenever else I have something to say!