Molly’s Blog Hello World! This is Molly’s handler, my name is, well… it doesn’t matter. It isn’t about me, it is about Molly. She is an awesome dog! Her exact history is unknown but her traumas still at times show themselves. She flinches if you have something in your hand and go over the top of her. She guards her tail and butt, doesn’t like her feet touched. When you first meet her if you lean over her or look her in the eyes she will hackle and bark and may even lunge… but she’s never bitten. Why would I say she’s awesome? Let me tell you. I live in a prison. I know fear. I know anger. I know anxiety and desperation. I know that 32 years ago when I first came to the “pound” I was always barking and at the end of my leash also. Like a number of these dogs I did a lot of “kennel” time, isolated, watching the world go by. Years of it. I needed structure, I needed help. I needed to find someone patient enough to teach me to see past my own mess. Then I was asked,” Do you like dogs?”
To find my reflection in another species was somewhat unsettling at first. My mentor kept reinforcing the mantra, “Make it about the dog!” Little did I realize that as I focused on all the ways to help these four legged brothers and sisters figure out their issues, and find a better way… I was healing myself. My own issues were slowly dissipating. I now also know courage, love, redemption and freedom. The best way to teach is to be what you are teaching. Calm, confident, focused, happy and free. I know I am a better human being because I made it about the dog. I made it about something other than self, and somehow that is when self became whole. Almost like that is how we are meant to live…hmmm… When I zoom in and focus on all the imperfections, mine as well as other peoples, I become locked up again. Back in the kennel. So I zoom out, let it get a little fuzzy… you know, like the dog.
These rescue organizations that work with us prisoners don’t just rescue the fourleggeds in need, they rescue us twoleggeds also. Back to dear Molly. She has yet to have anyone try to adopt her. Maybe someone is saying, “Yeh, but she has those issues…” And maybe I’m saying, “Yeh, but don’t you need help working through yours?” I did. Thank you to PAWS of Grays Harbor and all the other rescues working with prisoners across the globe. Pictures of Molly and other dogs in the Freedom Tails dog program here at this prison can be found on the PAWS of Grays Harbor website as well as the Stafford Creek Corrections Center page under Freedom Tails.
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