What is dog therapy visiting? A team consists of a handler, and a happy, excited dog ready to go visiting. Although these special canine therapists are all shapes and sizes, pure breeds and those wonderful mutts, they share a single purpose: to bring happiness and comfort to the sick or disabled or lonely. These wonderful serviceanimals make every person they visit feel special. I know that my own dog Benny, a black lab, loved visiting. I mean his tail went into “propeller” mode as soon as we pulled into the parking lot of our “home”.
It has been well documented that unconditional love given by therapy animals play an important role in reducing stress, boosting self-esteem, and decreasing recovery time. And, they help some of our older “friends” deal with lonliness and loss.
What is a therapy dog or therapy pet?
“Visiting Pets” “Therapy Dogs” “Therapy Pets” are just some of the names given to describe programs in which animals help people just by visiting with them.
Research has shown that heart attack victims who have pets live longer. Pets have an amazing positive effect on many people.
I read about the following study, and cannot help but to share it […]
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Many sports rival it, but you’d be hard pressed to name any competitive human activity harder than being a jockey. There’s the food deprivation - the constant training - the danger, even likelihood, of bone-crushing accidents. No wonder that of all athletes, jockeys face some of the highest insurance premium costs in sports.
And though Laura Hillenbrand’s bestseller Seabiscuit spotlighted the hardships faced by the jockeys of prewar times, the life of a jockey remains as tough, dramatic, and - for some - irresistible as ever. Herein, some of America’s great contemporary Thoroughbred horse racers.
Julie Krone (1963-) made racing history when, in 1993, she became the first woman winner of a Triple Crown race in US history, taking that year’s Belmont Stakes aback Colonial Affair. The Benton Harbor, Michigan-born athlete then wrote another chapter in that history when she executed a Michael Jordan-style dominate-then-retire-then-return-and-dominate-again maneuver, winning a Breeder’s Cup race (again, the only woman to do so) after she returned from an abortive retirement in 2002. During her career, Krone won over 17% of her races, netted more than $90 million in returns, and left her name in the record books a number of times.
But numbers don’t capture […]
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