I was glad to see dogs from the Animal Welfare Foster Program and from St. Marys, PA, were on the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, VA, serving as therapy dogs to comfort members of the campus traumatized by the murders on Monday, April 16th. It’s such a good idea–dogs will never say the wrong thing, they’ll offer unconditional love, they’ll lick your tears, they won’t ask questions, and they’ll smile when you can’t.
Check out the follow-up post on therapy dogs at Virginia Tech.
it wouldn’t be unthinkable to have pets on campus anyway. Maybe their absorbing ways could be a preventive against violence and suicides. Students, prisoners and nursing home patients all have no access to animals, and we all need animals in our lives.