The dogs bounded into the visit room at the mixed-custody prison for a reunion with their inmate handlers.
There may be no better place for bite-prone animals to receive the constant care they need to break out of their own prisons, say inmates, prison officials and WAG organizers.
The animals stay for weeks or months in the program - however long it takes for them to become whole, she said.
Participants at the reunion included a dozen inmates who earned participation in the program through good behavior.
They were on the verge of giving up on their animals before the dogs adopted the inmates as their constant companions.
The dogs, accompanied by their owners, included Sky the Great Pyrenees Husky, Connor the boxer-husky and Skeeter the Chihuahua.
She said three felines are already being leash- and clicker-trained at Clallam Bay by inmates in the prison's restrictive closed-custody unit. »
