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 Search and rescue includes numerous specialties devoted to locating missing people. The various SAR disciplines challenge handlers and dogs to work in the real world, often in situations that are physically or emotionally challenging.
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 The following are copies of a series of e-mails sent out through the "Belg-L" list after Topper and I returned from searching the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Barbara Mair was simply one of many who were recipients. Please enjoy them, but do not take them. They are copyrighted by me, Pat Grant, DVM. Also visit Monterey Bay Dogs.
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Therapy dogs are used by medical and mental health care volunteers and professionals to assist in therapy to the physically and mentally distressed. This is not a "sport" or recreational activity, but an important human service function. Persons with many varieties and degrees of physical and mental problems, from aged and bored nursing home residents, to the depressed, to the psychotic; sometimes can be comforted or stimulated better by a dog than by human health care providers alone. |
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