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Posted by KDiamondDavis on February 28, 2003 at 14:25:45:

In Reply to: Re: What types of things do you let your dog(s) do on visits? posted by PHHotdog on February 27, 2003 at 15:04:57:

:Great info Kathy:

:Have you ever been in a situation where you felt it was best to remove your dog from a patient for some reason or another?

:PHHotdog -host/trainee>>>

Oh yes, absolutely! Allowing someone to frighten or hurt a therapy dog is not doing that person any favors! Besides the fact that it's inhumane to the dog and can easily end a therapy dog's career by making the dog unable to calmly continue future visits, it can cause other people in that health-care facility to dislike the person for what they did to the dog. And of course it can get the person bitten. Every dog has limits. The only question is where those limits are. A wise handler NEVER lets the dog be pushed to those limits. The handler's job is always to protect the dog, and that includes protecting the dog from any situation where the dog would have good reason to be afraid. This holds true whether the dog actually shows fear or not. By the time the dog actually shows signs of being afraid or otherwise stressed, it may be too late to rehabilitate that dog.

Kathy Diamond Davis, author, "Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others," 2nd edition, and the free Canine Behavior Series at www.veterinarypartner.com

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