Former Hanford police therapy dogs to continue serving the community

HANFORD, Calif. (KFSN) -- Emotional enactment for radical successful Hanford volition travel from 2 therapy dogs that person present been reassigned to a section nonprofit.

That's aft the Hanford constabulary Department ended their program.

"We cognize the dogs tin beryllium successful, they person astonishing personalities and we didn't privation that to spell to waste, and determination are a batch of assemblage resources that went into that arsenic well, and we decided 'nope, they tin go portion of our pack," mentioned Perla Trejo, who co-founded HAPPI, oregon Hands and Paws Prevail, with Macarena Etcheberry.

Their non-profit HAPPI is connected a ngo to springiness Penny and Bebe a caller changeable astatine serving the community.

The labradoodle and goldendoodle duo are connected their mode to a caller assignment.

The 2 therapy dogs were a portion of the Hanford Police Department for 2 years.

The section ended the programme owed to fiscal reasons.

Now, HAPPI is taking connected the remaining one-thousand dollars worthy of training.

"But that includes lifelong grooming that includes your certification each twelvemonth and immoderate needs your section has. If you request a canine to spell enactment successful a courtroom, that's gonna beryllium antithetic than a canine going to a school," explained Perla.

Therapy canine grooming tin outgo betwixt $8,000 to $10,000.

Penny and Bebe, who enactment with their handlers, should implicit grooming successful May.

After that they volition service the community.

Penny and Bebe's adjacent duty is providing therapy to locals including for patients astatine Adventist Health.

Macarena is simply a Psychologist, and co-founder of HAPPI.

She explains, installation dogs, and adjacent pets tin assistance crook a frown upside down.

"It lowers your accent level, your anxiousness and besides brings you joyousness and makes you happy. But these dogs that are trained to enactment successful a installation with these radical are exposed to regular trauma," said Macarena.

For Perla, she knows archetypal manus the value of a installation dog.

"Prior to HAPPI I got diamond successful 2018, I americium really a constabulary serviceman I enactment for the region for galore years and one did a batch of kid maltreatment investigations and one saw archetypal manus what therapy dogs bash not lone for the assemblage we enactment with but arsenic a handler myself arsenic well," mentioned Perla.

The increasing enactment is based connected assemblage service, and prides themselves connected providing affectional enactment to the community.

They accidental their dogs assistance them beforehand intelligence wellness done the Power of Paws.

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