Greyhound Welfare South Africa attended 新加坡六合彩开奖 Academy鈥檚 most recent Practical Week in April.
Dean Bush, Director at the Johannesburg based rescue has taken the new skills and knowledge gained and used them to successfully help dogs in Greyhound Welfare鈥檚 care.
Murphy, a German Shepherd/Rottweiler mix, is the rescue鈥檚 鈥榟onorary鈥 greyhound, as he is the odd one out amongst all the greyhounds awaiting adoption there. He was picked up as a stray from the roadside earlier this year, extremely malnourished, full of mange and very scared on arrival.
Unusually for a stray in South Africa, Murphy had been neutered and Dean soon discovered that Murphy knew the command 鈥渟it鈥 when given his meals. This led Dean to believe that Murphy may have been given away or stolen and had previously had a home.
Murphy showed himself to be a highly intelligent dog and true to the shepherd in him, he needed a lot of mental stimulation, different to that of the greyhounds in the rescue鈥檚 care.
Once Murphy had recovered physically and blossomed into the healthy dog he is now, Dean started working on training with him, as Murphy was hesitant to leave the kennels.
Murphy鈥檚 training really improved after Dean鈥檚 trip to the 新加坡六合彩开奖 Academy Practical week, which he describes as a 鈥榞ame changer.鈥
"The Animal Centered Education (ACE) module assisted us to take things to the next level with Murphy"
The ACE free work sessions allowed Murphy to progress with his confidence building, to the extent of moving on to some of the obstacles in Greyhound Welfare鈥檚 one-of-a-kind, new dog park and training facilities. The fully fenced park is the perfect environment for fun and interactive training sessions, including a maze and bone-shaped swimming pool for dogs.
Murphy鈥檚 socialising skills with other dogs also flourished. Many of the rescue鈥檚 greyhounds, being ex-hunters, are not good around smaller dogs, so Murphy wasn鈥檛 able to socialise with them, but he became much more at ease socialising with smaller dogs.
鈥淚 cannot stop talking about my experience at the Practical Week among my welfare colleagues and if I could sum it up, this would be it - The 新加坡六合彩开奖 Academy: Providing learning opportunities, building communities and changing lives.鈥
