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| This dog loves her work as a Caring Canine at Mayo Clinic Hospital in Phoenix, AZ! How many people do you know that go to work with a smile on their faces, like the one that Cora is wearing here in this picture from today. Multiply that smile by a hundred and that's how many faces light up in the course of a just a few hours of visiting with patients. Job description....Therapy Dog...Animal Assisted Activities...... Task....provide comfort care and social interaction. Job well done Cora! |
Cora the Therapy Dog I have been wondering for a while now just "who" the person was that initiated the concept of therapy dogs. Found this article to be quite informative from "Wikipedia" and wanted to share with all of our readers. "During World War II, under combat operations against Japanese forces on the island of New Guinea, Corporal William Wynne came into possession of a young adult Yorkshire Terrier abandoned on the battlefield. He named the female dog Smoky . Smoky accompanied Wynne on numerous combat missions, provided comfort and entertainment for troops, and even assisted the Signal Corps in running a telegraph cable through an underground pipe, completing in minutes what might have been a dangerous, three-day construction job which would have exposed men and equipment to enemy bombers. Smoky's service as a therapy dog began when Corporal Wynne was hospitalized for a jungle disease. As Wynne recovered, Wynne's Army pals br
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