Animals can help people heal. People have discovered long ago about the healing properties of cats and dogs.
Animals can help relieve anxiety as well as be great companions to improve our emotions.
In 2015, Indiana teamed up with the Animal Welfare League to test a fantastic initiative called F.O.R.W.A.R.D at Pendleton Correctional Facility.
The idea of all this was to put cats in a penitentiary institution and the prisoners to start taking care of them.
For both the convicts and the cats, the idea was a fantastic initiative.
Many of the cats in this shelter come from bad situations, and the possibility being able to communicate with people in a controlled environment helps them get the attention and care they need.
Until these cats find their permanent family, the organization provides them with love and warmth, as well as their new caregivers who also need it.
Prisoners feed, groom, and clean cats, helping them regain their confidence in humans.
But cats are not the only ones who win in that situatio.
Convicts are also given the opportunity to gain compassion when caring for a needy animals; they are given responsibility.
Along with the difficulties of their lives, they are given a new opportunity and also to get care and devotion.
Thanks to this organization, they are both provided with the unconditional love, which many of these convicts and animals have never felt before.
Thus, thanks to this wonderful initiative, both sided receive the love and warmth that they need the most.
They help each other to overcome their heavy feelings and become softer and calmer.
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