My Thoughts on Marble Mountain Kennels/Detection Dogs, School Shootings & Family Violence

As most of you know, Pete and I own a business called, “Marble Mountain Kennels” and “Marble Mountain Detection Dogs” (MMKennels.com & MMDD), where we raise, train and sell high quality, intelligent, AKC-registered Labrador retrievers that hunt, point, retrieve, and/or detect specific things like weapons, drugs, food allergens, and even pesky bed bugs. When we train and sell a dog to a police department, the military, or other criminal justice institution, we are, helping to end violence and make children safer and more secure in a very insecure world.

It just so happens that my husband Pete is also the director of Mt. Hermon’s Kidder Creek Camp in Greenview, California. This summer When Kidder Creek Camp partnered with Casey Gwinn, founder of Camp Hope, for an incredibly rewarding and amazingly successful ministry to children of family violence. Camp Hope and Family Justice Centers are all about ending family violence, healing the lives of child victims of domestic abuse, and giving children the opportunity to experience the childhood they almost missed. Dozens of Marble Mountain Kennels puppies were held and loved by Camp Hope campers—and those little puppies provided warmth, love, and comfort to hundreds of little campers. It’s rather ironic that many of those same puppies will grow up to be detection dogs trained to sniff out weapons, narcotics, and fire accelerants, protecting and serving more children.

It is unfortunate, but with school shootings, public bombings, and other terrorist acts increasing in our nation, the demand for our dogs continues to grow. We are working hard to fill that need.

It may be a stretch, but I can see how Camp Hope and Marble Mountain Kennels go hand in hand. Some of our dogs already work for the military, fire departments, and airports. I foresee that our dogs will soon be placed in police departments, schools, and other strategic locations to continue to provide therapeutic unconditional love as well as protective services to more children and families.