AR-News: AR NEWS: Finding their way home

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http://www.sptimes.com/2003/09/11/Floridian/Finding_their_way_home.shtml

The FETCH program helps youthful offenders and the dogs they train learn how 
to better face the world.
By STEPHEN NOHLGREN, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published September 11, 2003

MARIANNA - The thing about Buddy is his sheer, tail-thumping exuberance. Put 
him outdoors and he takes off at full tilt. Throw him a tennis ball and he 
retrieves it for hours. He is one joyful little hound.
Youth's energy, however, has landed Buddy in a fix. He lives in a kennel, 
awaiting someone to adopt him. Those who pass through are mostly older. They want 
a dog who will bark at strangers and lie at their feet, not some 
black-and-tan dynamo casting around for his next adventure.
More sedate dogs in adjoining cages have already acquired new families. 
They're free.
Not Buddy. Until he exhibits discipline, until someone recognizes his 
underlying worth, Buddy will stay behind bars.
* * * 
The Dozier School for Boys is an unlikely incubator for warm, fuzzy 
experiments. Teenagers living here carry rap sheets that speak of drugs, burglary and 
assault. Razor wire tops a perimeter fence, reinforcing society's dim view of 
those inside.
Yet in one concrete blockhouse, something tender is transpiring.
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