Lucy's Day Out With Girl Scouts

What a dog day for us!
Lucy spent the day with Girl Scouts at Spirit of Nebraska. She worked with about 50 Daisies on animal care & safety. Lucy loves children so she was tapped to go early on. She is quite easy going, behaves, and most importantly she sees to understand children. Lucy has an ability to understand human language and behavior. She also loves to get her picture taken and posed for like 20 pictures today.

It is so important to teach children from a young age the responsibilities of owning a pet and also how to behave around them. I see a lot of inappropriate interaction between children and animals because neither have been taught how to coexist. If we do this early on and continue as both human and animal grow there are few chances for children to get bitten or a family being forced to surrender a pet.

Unfortunately not every person is a responsible pet owner. Additionally, not every animal likes people. Those being the realities is it up to us to teach children on how to be around animals; both their family pet and unknown pets.

I do an education program through my rescue(Camp BoBe). If you do not have a program in your area and want to work with your kids on these things Best Friends have some GREAT resources on their Best Friends Network NextGen page