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Paws for Pets – Pixie’s Pen Pals

Posted at 5:54 PM, Jan 05, 2016
and last updated 2016-08-28 00:36:52-04

Pixie’s Pen Pals
804-525-2193
http://www.fetchacure.org/pen-pals/

Through a partnership with the Virginia Department of Corrections, inmates at Virginia correctional centers – Buckingham Correctional Center, Fluvanna Correctional Center for Women, and Lunenberg Correctional Center – Pixie’s Pen Pals works to train and socialize rescue dogs with the guidance and instruction from two professional dog trainers.  FETCH a Cure’s Pixie’s Pen Pals program not only lowers the rate of euthanasia in Virginia’s city dog shelters, but also provides life skills to inmates.