A recent article in the "Personal Journal", an insert section to the Wall Street Journal, posted in its December 21, 2010 edition an interesting article about psychiatrists, psychologists and social workers that bring their dog's to work with them. They bring them for the specific reason that they feel their dog(s) have a calming effect on patients, help the patients come out of their shell and share their feelings.
After reading the article I learned a lot of interesting information about the intuitiveness of dogs and started thinking a lot about my own dog a Shiloh Shepherd. My dog Daisy is almost amazingly human like, as many of us can probably say about our dogs that we live with day in and day out. She truly can assess the emotions of any person in the room at any given time and reacts to it, often in a caring manner and offering her unconditional love. Even when you least expect it or realize she is doing it.
This also got me to thinking about these tough economic times, and why times like these are called a "depression". The article goes into some detail to explain how dog's can recognize when people are depressed and how seeing a dog in a medical office gives the visitor a feeling of comfort and safety.
A client shared with us the newspaper article, and I was able to find it online. If you click the following link, it brings you directly to the article on the Wall Street Journal Online website. If you have an interest in this subject it is worth the read. And if you have an opinion on the subject we'd love for you to share it with us.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703886904576031521407391768.html
"Paws"itivly Posting,
Gayle C., Practice Manager
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