Here’s a fascinating story from Colorado, about a therapist who uses a dog in one of the most tense and fraught situations of her profession: couples therapy. Ellen Winston—of Lakewood, Colorado—has an assistant named Sasha who. . .
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This story has so many wonderful facets, it’s hard to fit them all into one blog post. A young girl who lost friends and teachers in the Sandy Hook shooting last December meets a rescued Pit Bull who is reborn as a therapy dog, and there is an instant bond.
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The Anne Arundel County Public Library in Crofton, MD hosts a very popular program for young readers called “Reading with Ladybug”. Therapy dog Ladybug, a Yorkshire Terrier, is trained…
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We post frequently about situations in which people with service dogs are either denied service or asked to leave a business, and we are usually pretty hard on the business owners and employees who make these wrongheaded and illegal decisions. But we must be equally strong in our disapproval of folks who. . .
Read MoreDutchess the Golden Retriever is giving new meaning to the cliché “Love is blind.” When a degenerative disease robbed Dutchess of her eyesight in 2010, her career as an autism ambassador and therapy dog was in jeopardy. But in the. . .
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We post fairly frequently about therapy dogs rushing to the scene of a tragedy (shootings, bombings, tornadoes), but we rarely get good insight into exactly what these therapy dogs do. In this video, Brad Cole discusses his experience bringing his Akita, Spartacus, to help after the Sandy Hook Elementary shooting and the. . .
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Here’s a great story from southern Oregon, where Xander the Pug brings warmth, calm, and joy to many in his community. This is all the more impressive because the little dog is blind, having lost his sight due to an accident in puppyhood. He also has some respiratory problems that require him to breath through his. . .
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According to her Facebook page, Peaches the Wonder Pit is a “super cool therapy dog.” Rescued from a terrible abuse situation, Peaches now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and provides all kinds of therapy functions, from visiting local nursing homes to welcoming home soldiers from deployment to visiting victims of. . .
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