A dog walks into a nursing home
Subtitle: lessons in the good life from an unlikely teacher
By: Sue Halpern
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print nonfiction; Thorndike Press large print nonfiction series
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781410459947
Subjects: Therapeutic use; Human-animal relationships; Training; Dogs
Description: At loose ends with her daughter leaving home and her husband on the road, Sue Halpern decided to give herself and Pransky, her under-occupied Labradoodle, a new leash -- er, lease -- on life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy dog team. Smart, spirited, and instinctively compassionate, Pransky turned out to be not only a terrific therapist but an unerring moral compass. And little by little, their adventures expanded and illuminated Halpern's sense of what virtue is and does -- how acts of kindness transform the giver as well as the given-to.