{"id":57378,"date":"2015-09-10T00:09:01","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T07:09:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/?p=57378"},"modified":"2015-09-10T00:09:01","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T07:09:01","slug":"conservation-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57378","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Dogs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tShelter dogs with an over-abundance of energy can sometimes be hard to place. Their bounciness may be a little intimidating to those looking for a pet that&#8217;s more\u00a0low maintenance. But Rescues 2 the Rescue, a Washington, DC-based program, is putting all that energy to work by training shelter\u00a0dogs for wildlife conservation jobs.\u00a0Created by\u00a0Working Dogs for Conservation and the International Fund for Animal Welfare, Rescues 2 the Rescue works with high-energy shelter dogs, especially those who are &#8220;toy-obsessed,&#8221; to give them jobs as conservation detection dogs, finding hard-to-see wildlife or even the tiniest invasive weed among a mountainside of plants.\u00a0They also work to help scientists gather data. These dogs are often more easily trainable, as they are rewarded with a favorite toy when they find their target.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_57379\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-57379\" class=\"wp-image-57379\" src=\"http:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Border_collie_662716.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"264\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-57379\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by KatrinKerou via Wikimedia Commons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The program is intended to connect shelters with trainers\/handlers who are equipped to adopt, prepare, and care for detection dogs. There are many ways you can help these hard-to-adopt shelter dogs find new, rewarding lives through Rescues 2 the Rescue:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you are a shelter or trainer, join the Rescues 2 the Rescue site to post and search for dogs.<\/li>\n<li>If you are a volunteer at a shelter, bring Rescues 2 the Rescue to the attention of your adoption coordinator.<\/li>\n<li>If you are a pilot, or have a car and are willing to transport candidate dogs from shelter to trainers, join the team.<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Donate dollars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rescues2therescue.org\">Rescues 2 the Rescue website <\/a>to learn more.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shelter dogs with an over-abundance of energy can sometimes be hard to place. Their bounciness may be a little intimidating to those looking for a pet that&#8217;s more\u00a0low maintenance. But Rescues 2 the Rescue, a Washington, DC-based program, is putting &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/57378\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gift_for_gab"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.raisingjane.org\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}