Reflections

So many questions today at Mayo Clinic regarding Cora's "job" as a therapy dog.  I looked at Cora this time to supply the answers.  Silly as that seems,  it doesn't take long to realize that her "job description" could fill a whole page.  To the woman that needed her dog fix because she had to leave her beloved pet hundreds of miles away, she was a "companion".  For the mother of a young girl who wanted to be a vet one day, Cora was a "teaching tool".  The "entertainer" part of her then kept a waiting room full of patients and their families grinning and laughing.   Showing her calm mannerism to a prospective therapy dog parent made her a good "role model".  Behind the scenes, the "therapist" in her licked at a teary eyed face that was remembering a loved one.
One dog doing the job of so many, that's a therapy dog.