This Time-Honored Way To Calm Kids Soothes Scared Dogs Too

[asal]

http://healthypets.mercola.com/sites/healthypets/archive/2016/08/22/reading-programs-for-sheltered-dogs.aspx?utm_source=petsnl&utm_medium=email&utm_content=art1&utm_campaign=20160822Z3&et_cid=DM114570&et_rid=1629415294

[mita]

That's a lovely idea. I hope AWL Qld, which is fantastic for innovation, considers a program like that.

AWL Qld used to have (still have?) a reading in schools program, where an AWL volunteer would take a dog into schools for children to read to the doggie.

Local public libraries in Canada, have Library Dogs, who are on hand for children to read to. Here's Bilde, a Tibbie, at work in a Canadian library. Shows, just like with the shelter dogs, they love being read to!

[karen15]

What a wonderful, lovely idea to raise a generation of thoughtful, caring people. Those children must feel a wonderful sense of accomplishment when they see the impact they have had on a fearful, scared dog. Hopefully they will also learn animals are for life and it is a big responsibility to take on a pet.