Zach Skow

I’m Zach Skow — a 25-year animal welfare advocate, founder of prison-based dog rehabilitation programs, and a man in long-term sobriety after surviving end-stage liver failure in 2008.

This channel is about redemption — for people and for dogs.

For over a decade, I’ve worked inside state and federal prisons where incarcerated men and women train and rehabilitate rescue dogs from overcrowded shelters. Many of these dogs struggle with trauma and severe reactivity. Together, they prepare for adoption — and both lives transform.

Here you’ll find prison dog program stories, rescue and shelter advocacy, sobriety and recovery conversations, and updates from formerly incarcerated trainers rebuilding their lives.

And of course, Cora Rose — my two-legged poodle who proves daily that limitations are often illusions.

Dogs are medicine. Service is healing. No one is beyond redemption.