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Animal Protection of New Mexico and the Bernalillo County Animal Welfare Department are working together with the county’s community centers to teach children the responsibilities involved with humanely caring for animals. Throughout this summer Bernalillo County Animal Control Officers and APNM are pairing up with therapy dog teams from Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers to provide presentations that teach these responsibilities, as well as loose dog and bite safety techniques, to the children enrolled within the community center’s summer programs.
During the presentations, APNM’s Educational Outreach Director and the animal control officers demonstrate bite prevention and loose dog safety techniques. Children then get to meet and practice their newly acquired skills with the therapy dog teams. Officers also introduce the children to the equipment used in rescuing loose animals.
With summer vacation and the recent number of dog attack and bite cases in New Mexico, these presentations provide invaluable reminders of the owner’s responsibilities involved with properly caring for an animal as well as what children can do to protect themselves when these responsibilities have been ignored.
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