Dickens' Friends: Reflections of a Therapy Dog Team - Paperback

Judie Freeland started raising and showing golden retrievers when she realized that unlike the academicians she worked with, dogs will sit when they're told. On one of Judie's visits to the hospital's hospice wing to let her dogs-Hombre, Champagne, Ruff, and Echo say goodbye to her husband, a nurse asked, "Are they therapy dogs?" By the end of that summer, they were. Dickens was born in 2011, shortly after the last of Judie's original therapy dogs had gone to the Rainbow Bridge. He passed the therapy dog tests in 2012 and has been enjoying his weekly visits to vulnerable friends ever since, letting them know he loves them and basking in their smiles.