Dickens' Friends: Reflections of a Therapy Dog Team

by Judie Freeland

Overview

Dickens' friends range in age from forty to over one hundred. They live in care facilities, suffering from physical and mental disabilities that make it impossible for them to live alone or without constant medical attention. All too often, they are dismissed as nothing more than people who have lived too long. WRONG. They are people, unique individuals with past lives and present memories that they enjoy sharing, if someone will listen. Sometimes it takes a dog who loves people to let them know they will be heard. Dickens is that dog. These are some of their stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780990482666
Publisher:	Penstemon Publications
Publication date:	11/01/2015
Pages:	106
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.22(d)

About the Author

Judie Freeland started raising and showing golden retrievers when she realized that unlike the academicians she worked with, dogs will sit when they're told.

On one of Judie's visits to the hospital's hospice wing to let her dogs-Hombre, Champagne, Ruff, and Echo say goodbye to her husband, a nurse asked, "Are they therapy dogs?" By the end of that summer, they were.

Dickens was born in 2011, shortly after the last of Judie's original therapy dogs had gone to the Rainbow Bridge. He passed the therapy dog tests in 2012 and has been enjoying his weekly visits to vulnerable friends ever since, letting them know he loves them and basking in their smiles.