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Funeral Homes Have ESA
July 28, 2020
Stillinger Family Funeral Home has added a staff member you wouldn’t expect to meet when you walk through the door. David Stillinger joined us today to introduce us to this “pupular” addition to the funeral home. They have six-month-old Labradoodle named Foster who is a fully certified therapy dog. His name has a special meaning […]
Therapy Dog Booker T. Pug
July 28, 2020
Tucked inside a plush beanbag-filled playhouse in South Salem Elementary School’s media center is everyone’s favorite staff member: Mr. Booker T. Pug. It’s where he makes a difference in the lives of 900 students every day. The students who read aloud to nonjudgemental Booker and become better readers. The students who come into the media […]
Service Dog For Ava
July 28, 2020
Last year, Ava Reed and her parents welcomed a little puppy named Maggie into their home. One day, they hoped, Maggie would be able to replace Ava’s mobility walker, helping her balance, walk up stairs and get up after a fall, since 8-year-old Ava has Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, a neurological disorder that makes it difficult to […]
Guide Dogs In Training
July 28, 2020
TransLink has opened the Vancouver Transit Center to host guide and service dogs in training. The new recruits will be familiarized with several buses repeatedly to accelerate their training. “COVID-19 has been a real challenge for everyone, and I’m pleased to support the training of service and guide dogs in any way we can,” said […]
Dog-Walking Business
July 28, 2020
A 14-year-old St. Anthony boy who found himself with extra time on his hands thanks to coronavirus outbreak started his own dog walking business in July. “I started looking into ideas for jobs to raise money,” Jamison Orme said. “I have a friend who’s already mowing lawns. I didn’t want to be competition. Me, my […]
PTSD Service Dogs
July 28, 2020
While recent studies have found the ways pets can help consumers ease stress stress levels — particularly in families with children with autism — a new study is exploring how service dogs can benefit veterans. Researchers from Purdue University found that service dogs provide countless benefits to veterans struggling with PTSD, though dispelling anxiety is […]
Covid And Pets
July 28, 2020
Social distancing applies to pets as well as humans in households with positive cases of COVID-19. Confirmed cases of pets infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, are being reported across the U.S. “We do need to talk about our pets,” said Susan Culp, DVM, Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Texas A&M AgriLife Extension […]
Helping Fellow Heroes
July 28, 2020
Every storybook needs a hero. Sometimes even the hero, needs a hero. Maine’s own Christy Gardner is a hero in every sense of the word. We share part one of our two part series on her mission… Christy Gardner played high school and college sports, in Maine, before serving in the U.S. Army. “I was […]
Chip Implants For Dogs
July 28, 2020
By the end of this year, every pet dog in Shenzhen, Guangdong province will be required to be implanted with a chip that bears information about its owner. The chip is about the size of a grain of rice and would hardly have an impact on the animals’ health, experts say. “It is a common […]
The Research On Dogs
July 27, 2020
“Humans have experimented on dogs for millennia, because their trust in people and willingness to obey commands makes them easier to work with,” according to a Washington Post article on July 7. Using this as the main guideline for decades, the VA still conducts cruel and inhumane experiments on dogs at their facilities. Reps. Dina […]
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