Re: Food for Thought... Have you seen it?

OOOOooohhhhhhhhh....how sad for your mom!  That's just terrible.
One of the llamas we have was used for therapy - and to introduce school
children to the llama world.  His name is Woody.  He is the type to walk
into the nursing home or school and just make himself quite at home.  He has
to touch noses with everybody - and I mean EVERYBODY.  He's like a dog and
follows you everywhere.  He puts his nose in your pockets or purse and
sniffs around - wondering what you're doing.  He loves people so much.  The
lady we bought him from says people would just light up when he walked in
with her...and couldn't keep their hands off of him.  She replaced him with
a younger llama, and really didn't want to part with "the Woodster", but I
just LOVED him and made an offer she couldn't refuse.  He makes ME smile
just thinking about him.  I think therapy animals are just the BEST.



On 1/12/09, TeichFauna@aol.com <TeichFauna@aol.com> wrote:
>
> There is a program here in Texas, where volunteers go to visit nursing
> homes, etc. with animals.  My mom used to do it with our cock-a-poo.   He
> would
> perform tricks, and loved to get the attention from everyone.  Mom  said
> they
> would just light up,  the staff commented that many never said  much at
> all,
> except when people came with their animals, then they would come  alive and
> tell
> stories of the pets they had, how much they missed them,  etc.   She no
> longer
> goes since Peewee died a few years  back.....  her cat definitely wasn't
> the
> type to go visit anyone, she  didn't even like it when visitors came to the
> house!
> By the way, Gidget (mom's cat) died the day mom came home from eye surgery
> (last week).......mom was so upset, the salt in her tears caused a lot of
> problems with the eye, but thankfully that all is healing well
> now......except
> her broken heart.
>
> Noreen
> zone 9
> Texas Gulf Coast
>
> In a message dated 1/11/2009 7:57:01 PM Central Standard Time,
> gossiper@sbcglobal.net writes:
>
>
> There is a former patient that comes every Sat night with donuts  for
> everyone.  From what I understand, he has been doing that over a  year now.
> For many, that is their only visitor.  How  sad.
>
> Donna
>
>
>
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