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Subject: [Leica] Jeffery PAW 35 - Warning - Therapy Dogs
From: walt at waltjohnson.com (Walt Johnson)
Date: Fri Oct 13 18:27:25 2006
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They sure don't look the part of working dogs but I'll bet they are 
popular as hell. :-)

Jeffery Smith wrote:

>These two ladies may not look like working dogs, at least not the
>traditional sense. But both are working dogs, and without a salary. Emma and
>Heidi are therapy dogs, which took about 2 years of training. They are taken
>to hospitals and old folks homes to cheer up the patients. Their training?
>Not to bark, bite, jump, lick (Emma is not too good on that one) or
>otherwise intimidate or surprise the patient. They were in the office of our
>resident radiation therapy professor, so I stuck them on a chair and snapped
>their picture.
>
>http://www.400tx.com/2006-35.html
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>Getting two pairs of bulging eyes in focus at f/1.5 is not easy. They look
>more patient here than they were...they wanted to get in my lap (like they
>were trained to do).
>
>Jeffery Smith
>New Orleans, LA
>http://www.400tx.com
>http://400tx.blogspot.com/
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In reply to: Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Jeffery PAW 35 - Warning - Therapy Dogs)