K9 Training Fundraiser Tonight in Clifton Heights, Pa.
By John McDevitt
CLIFTON HEIGHTS, Pa. (CBS) -- A restaurant in Delaware County is promising to donate a portion of each dinner bill tonight to an organization that rescues dogs and trains them for police work.
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The Throw Away Dogs Project is a Huntingdon Valley-based nonprofit group that rescues "high drive" dogs, trains them, and donates them to police departments. In the year and a half of its existence it has placed to dogs with a Maryland prison system and the with the Maryland state police.
Three other dogs were made more adoptable and placed with families.
"Dogs are being put to sleep when we can really put them to work, and that's what we are trying to do -- and definitely saving the departments money and helping the community out at the same time," says Carol Skaziak, president and founder the Throw Away Dogs Project.
Once trained, she notes, each canine is worth approximately $7,000.
A fundraiser is being held tonight in Clifton Heights, Pa., for the Throw Away Dogs Project. Nick & Lou's Pines Diner, at 500 E. Providence Rd., in the Penn Pines Shopping Center, says it will donate 20 percent of all guest bills between 4pm and 9pm.