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Therapy Pet.
5 Best Dogs for Your Golden Years
Like many people in late middle age, I find myself wondering if my next dog will be different. I have long shared my life with retrievers — active, field-bred dogs who throw themselves with joy into every situation (and every puddle of water bigger than a dinner plate). Their boisterousness is infectious: My dogs make me…
Terfel had a pretty rough life before Pwditat wandered into his yard. The blind, 8-year-old dog spent most of his time in North Wales, UK, in a basket. Terfel was blind because of cataracts. When he left the basket, he bumped into things, so he mostly stayed in the basket. Then Pwditat happened along. Pwditat (which we're guessing is pronounced Puddy-Tat, like Tweety Bird called Sylvester in Warner Bros. cartoons) was a stray cat, and Terfel's owner, Judy Godfrey-Brown, had the foresight to let her into her home. It was the right thing to do. According to the Sun, the cat "walked up to Terfel, led him from his basket, and brought him out to the garden." "I've never seen anything like ...
Therapy pets are amazing and altruistic creatures; sadly, not all of them are treated equally. According to the Daily Mail U.K., a little boy with Down syndrome may be fined for his pet therapy pig, because the animal is illegal to keep as a pet in his Florida town. Kason Ray's family got the seven-week-old pig, Tiny Twinkie, to help their son with his development. The Rays say they have already seen a positive change in Kason's behavior with the pig in the picture. Tiny Twinkie's sweet face and demeanor are the perfect tool against controlling Kason's occasional fits. ...
