Therapy dog visit
I am training Winston, my sheepie, to be a therapy dog and it was cool to get to see the visit from a patients point of view. I really think therapy teams do wonderful work - - -I am so excited for us to do this. |
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I'm with you; my goal is to get Luna and Tonks into the therapy Dogs program as well. We'll see how that works out....  I know Luna will be fine at it; I just have to wonder if Tonks will ever calm down. |
Darth Snuggle wrote: I'm with you; my goal is to get Luna and Tonks into the therapy Dogs program as well. We'll see how that works out....
I know Luna will be fine at it; I just have to wonder if Tonks will ever calm down.you know you could do that with luna and something else with Tonks. siblings should have their own identity  |
kerry wrote: Darth Snuggle wrote: I'm with you; my goal is to get Luna and Tonks into the therapy Dogs program as well. We'll see how that works out.... I know Luna will be fine at it; I just have to wonder if Tonks will ever calm down.you know you could do that with luna and something else with Tonks. siblings should have their own identity I was thinking about that; Tonks is pretty inclined towards Agility. Moreso than Luna. So we might have one Agility dog and one Therapy when we are done. |
| Stephanie, that is pretty cool.
When do your classes start? |
| Steph...
I am sorry your nephew is in the hospital, but isn't nice to be able to distract their attention by having a wonderfully trained, sweet dog walk into the room and make everyone smile???? You and Winston will be the ones to make a difference in someone's life in the very near future. To make them forget, even if it is just for 10 minutes what is happening to them. To make them remember a happier time, when they were young and had a special dog to love. I am so proud that you and Winston are pursuing this. I know it is not easy in your area, but you didn't give up!!! Way to GO!!!!! A....I think you and Tonks and or Luna will make a wonderful team. You have such compassion!!!! I am looking forward to hearing that you are beginning training to be a therapy team..... |
sheepieshake wrote: A....I think you and Tonks and or Luna will make a wonderful team. You have such compassion!!!! I am looking forward to hearing that you are beginning training to be a therapy team.....
Well we have to pass our CGC first; I think we are just about ready to take the test! Once we've accomplished that, we'll look into the training options for Therapy. I know there are several different organizations here that do it. |
| I hope your nephew is OK.
How nice to be on the visiting side. Our chapter has visited several of our members and family members over the years. LeAnne even got visited when she was in 5th grade and in for her tonsillectomy. Our member who had a stroke was in longer, and she got lots of visits! We even visited my little grandson Will when he was born. Peds are good too - usually lots of bored siblings, and the parents are SO grateful for the diversion. |
I hope your nephew is okay, Steph. 
How cool to get a visit from a therapy dog, though. Makes you even more determined to get Winston certified, huh? What a wonderful thing to do to help people.  |
| This reminds me of an incident yesterday with friend's dog in Taos, NM school. The dog, Martha Stewart, is in the READ program where kids read to a dog helping the reader to relax. MS was her usual low key self when the New Mexico Insurance inspector came in and had a hissy fit. Dog in a classroom!
He has never heard about Gold Star, Delta, READ, etc and is concerned about the liability of a dog in school; attack, bite, allergies. Even tho each dog, handler are well screened and no child can participate without written parent approval, yada/yada, he's still being a jerk. Hopefully all this will be straighened out and this inspector was just a mushroom (living in the dark feeding on .......) it is a reminder to all groups to make sure the state insurance people are up to speed on these programs or anyone else who has the power to pull the programs. As Steph mentioned, these are wonderful programs. Let's protect them. |
I don't know how all this works but Guinness and I did a reading program and it was wonderful!! The only problem is all the kids wanted to read to Guinness and after we read and the children were lining up to go home all of them ran to Guinness and wanted to pet him and feed him cheese  He really was a hit He would lay his big shaggy head in their laps while they read. I enjoy doing our visits in the hospital too I get as much out of the visits as the patients do and the staff loves him. He is heavily insured, as all therapy dogs are. |
| I too had a problem on a couple of visits with security.
One security guard just wouldn't let me through the door. He kept saying NO WAY!!! NO DOGS ALLOWED!!! I tried to explain that I had been visiting at this facility for 10 years and we are "special"--FINALLY...I talked him into going to the front desk with me to talk to the receptionist who sees us every 2 weeks. Of course she assured the "new" security man that we were allowed!!!! 
(I have also had doctors question why we were there... ) |
The docs at the one hospital (well some) come over and pet Guinness some ask me to visit where we are not allowed. We were invited to the state fair on vol day with our dogs The coordinator of our group got stopped by security and they would not let her in  she finally found the head fellow and he explained. They actually moved us up through the line so Guinness would not be near people in line????? he was there to promote our group...... |
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