Eddy's Good News: Animal shelter start dog training program and Starlink move to improve search and rescue efforts

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4 Sep 2024, 16:12

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Wednesday 4th September 2024

We all love it when a plan comes together, especially when that plan involves a dog, a cat, or pretty much any animal!

Here’s a pawsome plan that’s come together in New Mexico where a no-kill animal shelter charity has started an inmate dog training program at a prison last year—and now joy and fulfilment are being created on both sides of the leash.

Eight inmates are now looking after four hard to get adopted dogs. The unconditional love they've got from their charges has had a marked effect on the men, who are now more compassionate people and better at sticking to the rules and will, I’ve no doubt, start getting released earlier for good behaviour. Their job is to train the doggos to make them easier to adopt, and they’ve loved the experience so much they started a fundraiser to pay for the program. Even better, they got a cheque from fellow prisoners who had a whip-round, because they love seeing the doggos on prison grounds.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org

The satellite internet service Starlink is looking for approval from every government in the world to give us the ability to make emergency calls from wilderness areas to help improve search and rescue efforts and reduce deaths.

Starlink last made headlines when Russia invaded Ukraine and took out their communication infrastructure. Elon Musk sent truckloads of Starlink dishes to give Ukraine independent, reliable broadband, an essential tool in everything including a war.

“This applies worldwide, subject to approval by country governments” said Musk on the thing I still call Twitter and have refused to update so it still has a Twitter logo on my phone. “(we) Can’t have a situation where someone dies because they forgot, or were unable to pay for it.”

Because there are no cell towers in the wilderness, now hikers, explorers, holiday makers, even sports people like fell runners will be able to reach space and have the Starlink service bounce their 911 call to the emergency services.

Via: goodnewsnetwork.org