Picnic for Pawsability to Benefit Prison Pooches
Join hundreds of dogs lovers for June 14 benefit
(NOVATO, CALIF., June 5, 2008) — Bring your canine companion and join hundreds of animal lovers and community activists for the 2nd Annual Picnic for Pawsability on Saturday, June 14 from 1-3pm at Glen Park Canyon Recreation Area in San Francisco. The event will benefit two groundbreaking programs, the Marin Humane Society’s Pen Pals of San Quentin and East Coast-based Puppies Behind Bars. There will be live music, a kids corner, delicious food, a community raffle, and of course...dogs!!!
Pen Pals of San Quentin is a program jointly operated by the Marin Humane Society and San Quentin Sate Prison in which select inmates learn to socialize and train shelter dogs to prepare them for adoption. Through the Puppies Behind Bars program, inmates from seven East Coast correctional facilities train puppies to become service dogs. Increasingly, these dogs are being placed with physically and psychologically disabled veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“Pan Pals of San Quentin and Puppies Behind Bars demonstrate the transformative effect of a dog’s unconditional love and devotion,” says event coordinator Sophie O’Shaughnessy. “There seems to be no end to the positive impact of dogs on our lives.”
Cost: $20 minimum suggested donation; kids under 12 free. For more information, visit picnicforpawsability.org or call (415) 867-8781.
CONTACT:
Carrie Harrington
Communications Manager
Marin Humane Society
(415) 506-6256
charrington@MarinHumaneSociety.org
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