The Possibility Dogs: What a Handful of 'Unadoptables' Taught Me about Service, Hope, and Healing
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (940 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00D4D9B1O |
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| Number of Pages | : | 356 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
After a particularly grisly search led to a struggle with PTSD, Charleson credits healing to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. Inspired by that experience and having met dogs formally trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify abandoned dogs with service potential, often plucking them from shelters at the last minute, and to train them for work beside hurting partners, to whom these second-chance dogs bring intelligence, comfort, and hope.From black Lab puppy Merlin, once cast away in a garbage bag, who stabilizes his partner's panic attacks to Ollie, the blind and deaf terrier who soothes anxious children, to Jake Piper, the starving pit bull mix who goes from abandoned to irreplaceable, The Possibility Dogs illuminates a whole new world of canine potential.. In The Possibility Dogs Charleson chronicles her journey into the world of psychiatric-service and therapy dogs trained to serve the human mind, a journey that began as
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