It’s been a long time since I’ve done an Animals Helping People post, and I felt it was time to once again highlight the ways in which animals improve our lives. A year ago, my MIL was in a skilled nursing facility after having knee replacement surgery. We found …
Today’s animals helping people is a little different that previous ones. Our focus today is on the Service Dog Academy inSeattle. We all know the benefits of service dogs. They help people in so many ways. The really neat thing about theServiceDogAcademy is that they will help you train a …
Do you see it? Do you see the shiny new badge on the right, the one called Bloggers Give Back? This is a movement started by a friend and fellow personal finance blogger (my personal finance blog is The Dog Ate My Wallet) Jana at Daily Money $hot. Bloggers tend …
Anyone who has a dog knows what a great listener their dog is. When you need to vent or cry or just talk something out, there is your dog, always willing to lend an ear, never making a judgment or trying to solve the problem, he’s just there, listening to …
I believe in the power of animals. There is something deep in humans that lead to us domesticating them, not only as beasts of burden but as part of our families. We respond to their basic presence in a way we are often unable to respond to other people. That’s …
Our pets are great stress relievers, even when we’re not actively aware that we need that service. We’ve got a bit of stress in our lives at the moment, but the other night we had a friend over and were visiting and having a great time. Junebug was lying on …
I believe in rehabilitation for both dogs and people. I don’t want to get in to a discussion about the purpose of prisons or whether or not we should try to rehabilitate all people, but if we want to be able to release people from jail and have them function …
We were talking the other day and C mentioned that he was pretty ready to start looking for another dog. As much as we’d like to be the people who take our dog everywhere, we’re not. And Junebug really likes having other dogs around. However, her new found shyness at …