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Community Hospice suspends therapy pet visits
April 1, 2020
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, Community Hospice & Palliative Care’s Pet Therapy pets are unable to make visits to patients and their families. These compassionate dogs and cats travel to see patients in Baker, Clay, Duval, Nassau St. Johns, Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Levy, Putnam, Suwannee and Union counties. “We felt a […]
A helping paw
April 1, 2020
The health care needs of each person are multifaceted, consisting of various factors that makes everyone unique. Therefore, effective health care requires collaboration between various professionals to support healthy and meaningful lives. We celebrate April as National Occupational Therapy Month. Occupational therapists (OTs) play an important role across the lifespan in a child’s development or […]
COUNSELING CANINES
April 1, 2020
While Clearfield’s Seth Beardsley was studying at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science — from where he graduated in the fall of 2018 — one of his instructors had a therapy dog at the funeral home he owned. John Elachko, who owns John N. Elachko Funeral Home in Pittsburgh, has a therapy dog and taught […]
Therapy dog visits children
April 1, 2020
These are difficult, anxious times for families holed up with small children. Ladd is here to help. The service dog normally does his calming and comforting at North Arlington’s Zentai Martial Arts studio. But these days, Allen DePeña, owner and operator of Zentai Martial Arts, has been taking him around to his younger students’ homes to deliver bags full of slime […]
Supporting your pets while working from home.
April 1, 2020
A downside of working from home is that many of my important work conversations are interrupted by what I have begun to refer to as my fur-workers,” said Candace Croney, fondly describing her cat, Bernie, and Havanese mix Desi. “They like to help me out by announcing the end of the world is coming because […]
Therapy dog keeping Cork students and teachers connected
April 1, 2020
As schools remain closed in line with the latest restrictions announced by government, students from a local special needs school are enjoying daily check-ins with their therapy dog. Begley has been helping both children and staff at St Mary’s Special School in Rochestown for over a year. Begley usually visits the school each Friday, and […]
Therapy dog brings light to children
April 1, 2020
Research has shown time and again how animals can help us lower our blood pressure, reduce our anxiety and relieve stress. Atrium Health uses a furry friend, Maggie, a Golden Retriever who is a licensed therapy dog, to help patients recovering at Levine Children’s Hospital.
Can my pets be tested for coronavirus?
April 1, 2020
Last Thursday, the first cat tested positive for coronavirus. The feline had diarrhea, vomiting, and difficulty breathing, and it had come down with COVID-19 about 1 week after its owner did, Belgian health officials announced. The same day, Hong Kong’s Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department reported that a 17-year-old Pomeranian—which had initially tested “weak positive” […]
Therapy dog visits nursing home residents
April 1, 2020
Elizabeth “Tiger” Maynard-White and her therapy dog Duke greeted residents at the Harbor Village Nursing Home in New London in a new way, through the windows, on Tuesday, March 31, 2020. The pair has been visiting since Duke was a puppy. In response to COVID-19 they didn’t want to stop visiting but wanted to […]
Delivery dog offers curbside wine pickup during the coronavirus lockdown
April 1, 2020
Maryland is getting the real-life equivalent of the brandy barrel-bearing St. Bernard of Alpine rescue lore — although instead of life-giving spirits, it’s carrying spirit-giving wine. It’s the social-distancing solution of Stone House Urban Winery in Hagerstown, which has introduced a delivery dog to its intrepid staff. His name is Soda Pup, a 75-pound brindle […]
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