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| Cora and I visited Mayo Clinic Scottsdale location today. The facility is loaded with the history of the organization, but this one picture on the wall caught my attention. The caption above the mural says "Unhurried examination of each patient". I got to thinking about when Cora greets patients and how she chooses how long to maintain that visit. I think she realizes the need that each individual has and doesn't "hurry" until the visit is comforting. Florence Nightingale would have loved having a therapy dog! |
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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