14750 Six Mile Cypress Parkway, Fort Myers, FL 33912, USA
911 (Emergency)
239-477-1000 (Non Emergency)

Program Benefits

THE BENEFITS FOR THE INMATES:

  • Participants learn to redirect their focus from themselves to care for another
  • They learn a valuable, marketable job skill
  • There is satisfaction as they volunteer their time to save an animal’s life
  • It allows the opportunity to return something positive to the community – a healthy, well socialized and well adjusted pet
  • There is a sense of accomplishment and pride when the dog successfully graduates

THE BENEFITS TO CORRECTIONAL STAFF:

  • Adds a successful and popular vocational program
  • Improves inmate cooperation
  • Inmates are more compliant with fewer violations
  • Promotes an institutional environment of less tension and violence while improving communication between staff and inmates

THE BENEFITS FOR THE COMMUNITY:

  • Lowers rate of euthanasia in Lee County’s animal shelters
  • Lowers recidivism and cost to “tax payer”
  • Lowers cost for animal control
  • Provides well trained dogs for adoption
  • Provides more productive members of society.
  • To learn more about the adoption process, contact Lee County Domestic Animal Services 239-533-7387