A dog training facility in eastern Colorado is saving not only dogs, but people as well.
Many people can say owning a dog will change your life for the better. But at Leasure Ranch K-9 Academy, they are taking that literally.Working hand-in-hand with a local rescue, Michelle Abel has been taking in rescue dogs and training them in Byers, Colo. since May of 2021,
reported. "I will take in some of their more difficult dogs and we train them to be able to place them better in homes is how it started," she said. But then, she took it a step further and worked with the animals to become service dogs."Most importantly, it's teaching them to be a proper service dog. When dogs walk into a public place, they should stay and lay down and not move. And so there is a lot of training that goes into that," she said.
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