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Therapy Dogs Provide Comfort
May 1, 2020
We could all benefit from a little therapy dog company while isolated during the coronavirus pandemic. But Jackson, an 8-year-old golden retriever therapy dog for the Angel on a Leash organization, hasn’t been able to make his usual rounds to elderly care facilities and elementary schools. Instead, his owner, Bob Wharton of Yardley, decided to make […]
Students Get Virtual Pet Therapy
May 1, 2020
Adapting a hands-on program for the coronavirus pandemic, Manchester Community College will offer “virtual pet therapy” sessions as students head into final exams next week. An important part of the college’s stress relief service — the feel of feline fur or a canine’s cool nose — will be missing from the video sessions, but pet […]
Service Dogs Are Essential During This Pandemic
May 1, 2020
In the midst of this global pandemic, service dogs are more essential as many who utilize their services battle with Post-Traumatic Stress, Traumatic Brain Injury and/or Military Sexual Trauma. K9s For Warriors says social distancing and the economic stress caused by COVID-19 may trigger negative feelings or actions. Service dogs will assist in alleviating any […]
Therapy Dogs Ease Anxiety
May 1, 2020
When Terry Gallogly trained her first therapy dogs, she had a simple goal: to bring joy to her little niece. Lily was born in 2009 with a developmental disorder called lissencephaly, in which the brain does not have the usual creases and folds. The condition, also called “smooth brain,” affects her ability to grow, move […]
Nation’s Most Popular Purebreds
May 1, 2020
America’s dogs are having their day as the coronavirus keeps many people at home more with their pets and spurs so much adoption and fostering that some shelters’ kennels have emptied. But while much is changing for people and pooches around the country, here’s something holding as steady as a dog with a favorite toy: […]
Office K-9 Unit
May 1, 2020
While the coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the temporary closure of Goodwill Manasota’s stores and offices, its Corporate Campus was instrumental in a recent law enforcement exercise. The facility played host to a group of officers and service dogs from the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office K-9 Unit to train the dogs to sniff out “drugs” […]
CAN’T BAN EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMAL
May 1, 2020
A 14-year-old girl with Type 1 diabetes and mental health disabilities will be able to keep her dog after the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruled her strata’s bylaw banning dogs discriminated against her human rights. In the decision April 29, B.C. Human Rights Tribunal member Devyn Cousineau said the girl needed her dog because of […]
THERAPY ALPACA VISITS
May 1, 2020
Leave it to alpacas to bring a smile to people’s faces during a pandemic. On Tuesday, residents at the Boulder Creek Post Acute Assisted Living Center in Poway, Calif., got a visit from a pair of the animals, separated by a safe social distance, of course. As part of the Helen Woodward Animal Center’s Pet […]
DOG TRAINING PROGRAM
May 1, 2020
In June 2019, the Joint Regional Correctional Facility began the Dog Handler CARES Program, which allows inmates to train young dogs in basic obedience skills before the dogs go on to more specialized training to become service dogs. Since then, not only have the very first program dogs labradoodle Jericho and yellow Labrador retriever Vizer […]
TOP DOGS
May 1, 2020
Wagging tails. Wet noses. Soft, warm bellies. It’s not surprising that getting a visit from a therapy dog while receiving cancer treatment boosts the spirits. But these visitors do more than put smiles on the faces of people with cancer — they may actually help some people heal. “Getting up and moving around after surgery […]
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