Continuing to Amaze

Previous posts have highlighted the many and varied ways that dogs assist humans. This is another such amazing story. Tuesday is a Golden Retriever. Her owner is an Iraq war veteran with post traumatic stress syndrome. Tuesday is a specially trained 'psychiatric' service dog, trained to help such veterans. For example Tuesday recognize when her master is having a nightmare and will bark to wake him up. Psychiatric therapy dogs can also recognize changes in respiration and perspiration which may indicate an impending panic attack. They respond with a calming nudge or lick- just to say its ok, I'm here.

Perhaps our next president should be a dog. There is so much they can do, I would not be surprised if they could fix the economy, the auto industry and end unemployment.