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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rockhillmanor wrote:Executive wrote:
Simply ask your nurse if they can visit you during visiting hours. Unless they're Great Danes or Mastiffs, often they will allow visits....ask..worse they can say is no....Dennis
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Great Danes ARE allowed if they are TD dogs.
All my Great Danes had TD training/titles. For years we went to local hospitals to visit the cancer patients.
http://www.akc.org/events/title-recognition-program/therapy/
This is a case of size does not matter!:W
Get all your dogs certified ahead of time. They do not have to be akc registered and/or purebred. So if you do get sick they CAN come to the hospital and visit you.
Not to mention how gratifying it is to take your dogs to the hospital to help others.
Thanks for the link.
My wife has talked about using our dog as a therapy dog for some time.
Now that she's retired she has the time. (Wife, not the dog :))
