Donated Therapy Dog to Serve in Newtown and Cheshire area

Nation’s Largest Pet Care Franchise Brings Therapy Dogs

to Help Newtown Survivors and Their Families

 Camp Bow Wow, the nation’s largest pet care franchise and an Inc 5000 company, in conjunction with its nonprofit organization, the Bow Wow Buddies Foundation, announces the launch of the Scout’s Angels program, with an inaugural visit to Newtown, Connecticut. This philanthropic initiative will gift two therapy dogs – Cashew (Labrador Retriever) and Nutmeg (Whippet mix), to Newtown, CT and will be joined by two therapists to help survivors, their families and the entire community. Along with the introduction of Cashew and Nutmeg to the community, five therapy dogs and their partner therapists, the Scout’s Angels Canine Care Team, will spend a week in the community hosting various events to support healing through the help of some furry friends.   Nutmeg will partner with Cheshire native, Lori Ratchelous, and be an ongoing part of the Soul Friends Inc  animal assisted therapy team serving children of the Cheshire-Meriden-Wallingford area.   Soul Friends is a local nonprofit, founded by two women of Cheshire, and has served over 6,000 children statewide with the healing benefits of the human-animal bond ( www.soul-friends.org)

Ratchelous, who is also the founder of the Cheshire Feral Cat Project, will spend this week in Newtown providing animal assisted therapy visits to the families of Newtown.  Kate Nicoll, the founder of Soul Friends and also a Cheshire native, will present on the benefits of animal assisted therapy at the Newtown library on Wednesday.