TORONTO summer camp season is here and though many boys were sent field nothing, trips, canoe and roasted marshmallow, a small group of children at a Toronto animal shelter is experiencing a practical education in training man's best friend.
For Justine Bystram, a decade in the Pawsitively training program pet dog junior camp children, the more difficult in the first morning of the camp is getting to Zoe, a well fed pug, to do what coach Margaret Pender called "pushup doggie".
Pender, Center of dead standing in a small courtyard behind the Toronto Humane Society shelter at the eastern edge of the city, repeats itself so it can listen to all 11 children and dogs in five homes.
"Sit, sit, down, down, stand."
Zoe white hair, the dog's age one group antique, plops and stays there, despite the request of Justine and fellow classmate Jez Vanrooy, 11.
"She only do one," admitted Justine.
The dog training session is the most recent program offered by Pawsitively pets, a company began three years ago in a small hospital in Toronto that animal is with camps in southern Ontario, Ottawa and Delta, b.c., teaching hundreds of children in summer classes.
It offers camps weeks sessions, mainly outside school year, giving to children aged five to 15 lessons on animal medicine and training. There is even an camp giving the opportunity to touch the creatures over 40 young children.
Me, find homes for unwanted dogs, says the camps increase children's knowledge of animals and exotic Founder Jennifer Ego, director of K9 rescue, snakes, reptiles and crawly bugs - and hammers that owning a pet is a big commitment.
Knowledge acquired in the camps can help children decide whether spending her life working with animals is suitable for them.
"I think it gives a good chance, instead of going to a general camps or sports field which perhaps exceeding in their years more children". "These camps give children the opportunity to do something really take much of."
Some aspiring veterinarians are among the Group of Toronto refuge camp attendees.
One is Meghan Bowman, who attended Camp mini-veterinarian of the Group last year. She is back this year to help the animals at the shelter and some suggestions on your Yorkshire terrier's 11 weeks of age, pipe of training.
15 Years is sure that wants to be a veterinarian after launch shelters and a veterinary clinic.
"I love animals and I really want to help them," said Meghan.
The camp also provides access to the world of pet care that most children do not have the opportunity to see, since many shelters and clinics do not take volunteers under the age of 18 years, says the Ego.
Bobbi Venier, it was the wild rabbits in the suburb of Vancouver Delta inspired to take Pawsitively pets to British Columbia.
Venier, a friend of Ego, said that it all started when someone leaves your bunnies go free resulting in a significant population of wild rabbits.
Hopes that the guys at his camp of not make similar mistakes with their pets.
The camp has a range of ages and gives children a guide to the animals in the province, from the very common bunnies for dogs, raccoons, and other urban wildlife.
Like me, said she expected many participants of the camp are intended for careers in animal medicine.
"Many of them want to be veterinary, know this." "(Still) are, like seven years of age".
She said she was "amazed" by the knowledge of animals for the children, as a young girl who taught Venier that owls cannot move their eyes.
"At the end of the summer we all know a lot, the children and adults."
The Canadian Press
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