Letter to the Editor

HCS Early College High School

2050 Hwy. 501 East

 Conway, SC 29526

September 19, 2013

 

The Sun News, 
Letter to the Editor, 
P.O. Box 406, 
Myrtle Beach, SC 29578

 

Dear Editor-in-Chief:

My name is Kayla Watkins. I am a sophomore at Early College High School.  I am writing to propose the idea of South Carolina prisons adopting in-house dog training programs.  I know that in the Grand Strand alone shelters for animals stay full.  If prisons adopted these programs that would cut down immensely on the dogs in shelters.  What these programs do is entrust an inmate who is ready for a big job to train a canine to become a service dog. 

As awesome as this seems some people don’t agree this is a good idea because they think a prison is a cruel, inhumane place to keep a dog.  That’s not true though because the dogs would be in the best of hands because inmates have been through similar situations as the dogs and don’t want to hurt them.  Not everyone is willing for change to take place but that’s what these programs would bring is positive change.

Thank you so much for your time.

Sincerely,

Kayla Watkins