What is the Givens Hall PAWS Program?

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You’ve asked us HOW you can help support our PAWS dogs and their trainers! Here is it!

Every 9 weeks BBBR sends a new round of dogs to PAWS! PAWS is the Orofino Prison training program, location ICIO, where each rescue dog is assigned a team of trainers for 8 weeks of training, companionship and CGC certification!

We have put together a PAWS Amazon Wish List of items that are needed for this awesome program. Whether it is training gear, health related or just plain fun items, BBBR, the rescue dogs, and their handlers appreciate your generosity and support!

All items ship directly to the PAWS program administrators located at ICIO.

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"Paroling Animals With Skills (PAWS) is a dog training program located at the Idaho Correctional Institution- Orofino (ICIO). Givens Hall PAWS and BBBR have developed a partnership, training bully breeds for an (8) week training cycle. Please help support our BBBR dogs and their PAWS handlers by purchasing and donating toys, gear, food, and other essentials needed during their 8 weeks of training. We appreciate your support!"

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BISCUIT IS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

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10/17/24: Arrived at the Givens Hall PAWS Program in Orofino. 

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Biscuit

Weekly Summary Week 6:

Biscuit has been doing great on his long distance recalls. He is such a loving, caring, huge overgrown puppy at heart. Biscuit thrives off of affection and loves to play tug consistently. He is food motivated and likes to do most of his training in the morning. He has come a long way and is showing that he can be a fast learner when he wants to be. Making training exciting will inspire Biscuit to perform at his optimal level. He will make a home very happy.

11/25/24 Daily Journal Entry

Biscuit is doing very well. He is in the process of learning shake, pray, and kiss. He gets very excited and tries to offer these behaviors even at times it is not when you desire. We will continue to shape these tricks and make him successful. We love Biscuit very much and know he deserves a home with tons of love and affection. He is a wonderful dog.

 

 

 

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For all weekly progress reports please check back here or visit the PAWS Facebook page!

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FOR MORE INFO ON BISCUIT? CLICK HERE. 

NYOMIE IS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

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10/17/24: Arrived at the Givens Hall PAWS Program in Orofino. 

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Weekly Summary: Week 6

The apprentices were able to do a circle with Nyomie for their first time together with all the other dogs. We also did some verbal commands. Because there is some people that don’t know the hand signals for sit, down, stay, and come. She hesitated a little but she is doing all commands. We also went over some maintenance skill. Plus we did some work on single cues, and CGC post-test to make sure she knows everything she has been working on. everything is going great for everyone on the team..

11/23/24 Daily Journal

Today the new apprentices did a circle and they did great. the apprentice needs a little more time to work on a circle.

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For all weekly progress reports please check back here or visit the PAWS Facebook page!

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FOR MORE INFO ON NYOMIE? CLICK HERE. 

GEPPETTO IS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

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10/17/24: Arrived at the Givens Hall PAWS Program in Orofino. 

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Weekly Summary Week 6:

Over the last week, we have worked lots on Geppetto’s long distance and duration commands. Since last week we have improved lots with his duration and we bumped his training sessions from 5-10 minutes long to 10-15 minutes with a majority of it being in either a sit or down position. I started these practices with a three minute down, a two minute sit, and a one minute down. This practice helped slowly gain more duration over the week and by the end we improved to longer durations in different, distracting environments. Geppetto’s duration is the worst with highly crowded areas of people because he wants to go check everyone out so bad, so it will be something we start to work on by next week! Geppetto is also doing great with his vibrating collar and has done well associating the vibration with a high reward from his handler as a form of his recall!

Daily Journal Entry 11/23/24

Today started off as a bit of a struggle with Geppetto and his duration. His sits he would maintain for a decent period of time, but every time I downed him he would jump back up into a sit within seconds. To work on this behavior, I have been getting within a foot in front of him (just enough distance that when he downs he won’t land on my feet) and I wait patiently and stare at the ground until he goes back unto a down. This has shown Geppetto that I want him to offer another behavior and when he does he is highly rewarded for it, sometimes if he breaks from a command and corrects it by doing the same step, I won’t even reward him. The reason I don’t always reward him is because this will start to create a behavior chain where he doesn’t have to do what I say at all or for very long because he knows that he will either get lured and fed or just offer behaviors until the guessed behavior comes with positive reinforcement

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For all weekly progress reports please check back here or visit the PAWS Facebook page!

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FOR MORE INFO ON GEPPETTO? CLICK HERE. 

LILY IS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

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10/17/24: Arrived at the Givens Hall PAWS Program in Orofino. 

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Weekly Summary- Week 6:

Lily has been doing great since her pre-CGC test. We have been working on tricks and giving her some tricks to take home with her. We also have been working on making sure she obeys commands without immediate reward and reinforcement. We are extending the duration she is willing to obey commands and pushing her training so she will obey hopefully her new owners wherever she goes. She has been doing great this week. We are so proud of her, she is a very smart dog. We started doing parking lot circles so she can get acclimated to being out in new areas and still being present with whoever has the lead, she gets excited and wants to explore but usually responds to the handlers commands. We will keep working on that stuff with her. Lily has an explorer side of her personality which we try and allow her to have, but making sure that she will always come back to her handler when we want her there.

Daily journal 11/10/24

Today we worked on Lily’s duration for her sit command. She wants to go down into a more comfortable position when we command sit so we are working on making that rewarding so she wants to keep the command. We also are working on using verbal commands only.

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For all weekly progress reports please check back here or visit the PAWS Facebook page!

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FOR MORE INFO ON LILY? CLICK HERE. 

BLUE IS AVAILABLE FOR ADOPTION

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10/17/24: Arrived at the Givens Hall PAWS Program in Orofino. 

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Blue

Weekly Summary – Week 6

Blue has been doing very well this week. Her training is progressing well and she is improving on all of her commands. Every day Blue gets to play with some of her friends in the rec yard. She runs until she can’t handle it anymore and collapses on the grass. Blues training sessions have been much more productive and she is improving with her “Stand” and her long distance recalls. We are going to start teaching her tricks this week and I’m excited to see how she does with this next challenge.

11/22/24 Daily Journal Entry

Today Blue had fun getting a lot of her energy out with play time. These play sessions significantly help her training because afterwards she calms down and focuses more with the handlers. They have also been helping her with losing some of the extra weight she had when she came in.

 

 

 

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For all of weekly progress reports please check back here or visit the PAWS Facebook page!

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FOR MORE INFO ON BLUE? CLICK HERE.