Reading to shelter animals

Courtney Mottes, of Monaca, a volunteer at the Beaver County Humane Society, holds up an iPad as a child reads to Kylo, an adoptable 3-year-old pit bull, over a video call during the shelter’s Rescue Readers Humane Education Program, a month-long program which gives kids an opportunity to read to shelter pets to build their confidence reading out loud, Wednesday, March 24, 2021, in Aliquippa. (Alexandra Wimley/Post-Gazette)