Why can't I take my dogs to hospital?!!!
This week I have some surgery that will require me to be in the hospital for 3/4 days. This is the first for me. Needless to say, DH will be around but I am going to miss my little furbabies sooo m...
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colliehauler wrote:
While not a hospital I use to take a Collie to a nursing home to visit a friend that had alzheimers. The other resident's loved a chance to pet him as well. You could see their eyes light up when I came for a visit.
I used to take Ike, my Aussie, to visit my Grandma. It took FOREVER to get to her room, because we stopped and talked with everyone along the way....LOL! And it was sort of odd - Ike was always stand-offish with strangers, but he LOVED the old folks, and would lay his head in their laps to be petted?! Either he understood how desperately they missed their pets, or he simply trusted them because they moved kind of slow.... but it was highly out-of-character on Ike's part.
The staff at the home encouraged pet visits by offering treats at the front office :-) They didn't know MY name, but they sure knew Ike :-)
