Saturday, September 01, 2018

September Theme-Teach: a Therapy-Dog-in-Training

Therapy dogs need to be trained to be comfortable around people in wheelchairs, using walkers or walking with crutches.  During the training, volunteers walk among and greet the dogs that are learning these important lessons, especially if the dogs are eventually going to be visiting hospitals, nursing homes or places where people are using this kind of equipment.



On the first day of every month the City Daily Photo Community comes together publishing photos from around the world with their interpretation of a chosen theme. Click here to view thumbnails for all participants.

11 comments:

  1. Hello, it is wonderful that there are these therapy dogs and volunteers that work with them. Great photos. Thank you for linking up and sharing your post. Happy Saturday, enjoy your weekend!

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  2. Amazing to me how well these dogs can be trained.

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  3. That is a fine looking dog. I think it might be a standard poodle, one of the smartest of all dogs.

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  4. They do seem to pick up the lessons quickly, don't they?

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  5. Good post for theme day.

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  6. Perfect for the day! A friend has been taking her dogs to long term care facilities for years and the residents do so love the visits.

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  7. They do very good work. So sweet they can learn all those difficult be haviours to help a human being.

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  8. The big white dog in this photo looks so much like our Bear who died this summer. He was a labradoodle with lots of Standard Poodle in him. We still miss him.

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  9. Theraphy dogs are priceless, their work gives so much comfort to a lot of folks. Great theme day photos, Kate.

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  10. Lovely take for the theme

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  11. Excellent post Kate, you and I were on the same wavelength here, dogs are incredibly intelligent ànimals ✨

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