Family Dog Training & Behavioral Center, LLC

Thank you for helping to prepare Angie for Therapy Dog work. She started this week by helping the "ready to go home" group at LifeCare Rehab hospital, the PT knew exactly how to put her to work and Angie shone. Next day we went to The Timbers for a meet and greet and photos in front of the holiday tree with residents. Putting on the kerchief she knows means being on best behavior, and she showed no hesitation around any of the med equipment, power wheelchairs and all. Her super power showed when the elderly gentleman next to me at rehab wistfully said I had a dog like her, for the next several minutes she was by his side or head in his lap, so quiet and gentle. Tears in the man's eyes. And at the Timbers, with a guy in a fully auto chair run by his chin, she had no problem getting up under his hand to be pet, giving him all her attention. Such a great smile from that young man. Yep, dogs have a power! I've been in contact with a couple of schools, the principals agree that their 1st graders need to read Go Dog Go to Angie, its just a matter of getting with the 1st grade teams and figuring a time. That's our goal, and after close to a year from having the idea it feels good to get close and to know that Angie can get it done! My time of shh....wait may be about coming to an end, time to get busy again. Again, thanks for your expertise in helping us prepare to be out in the world comfortably! Jack Murphy