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Dogs helping to heal the emotional wounds of war

January 31, 2012 | Julie Ciaramella | 2 Comments

The capacity of human hearts to be healed by animal kindness is an astounding thing, as you’ll see in this report from last night’s NBC Nightly News about therapy dogs helping soldiers move on from the emotional wounds of war.

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Dogs and Order: SDU

February 23, 2010 | Editor | Leave a comment

There’s not much in life that’s more comforting than a warm, fuzzy dog.  In addition, they seem to know when we need their comfort. Fortunately, more and more dogs are being used for therapy to help people through tough situations.

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PTSD prescription…get a pet

February 16, 2010 | Editor | Leave a comment

Pets for Vets is one of several non-profit organizations that matches veterans with PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) or other war-related disorders with homeless pets.  They’ve found that pets help these veterans better cope with their problems as well as providing that unconditional love that pets do so well.

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Therapy dogs can be colonized with MRSA

July 15, 2009 | Editor | Leave a comment
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The AVMA has issued a backgrounder on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) that incorporates recent research into the colonization of therapy dogs that visit health care environments as part of animal-assisted intervention programs (AAIs). One study cited indicates that dogs that participated in health-care AAIs were six times as likely to become colonized with MRSA than dogs in non-health-care-related AAIs.
The MRSA backgrounder includes guidelines for AAIs in health care settings.

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