NIH STOPS THERAPY DOGS FROM HELPING CHILDREN

Keeping therapy dogs from visiting children during the government shutdown is totally not necessary. I used to be a therapy dog volunteer and would take my dog to visit kids in the hospital, juvenile homes and senior citizen homes. It was all volunteer work and the government had nothing to do with it.

The excuse the government gives is that this particular community of service dogs has to see government veterinarians. Well, these dogs don’t have to see vets every day. Only if its time for shots or the dog needs medical help. Otherwise, these dogs are perfectly able to visit sick children in the hospital.

I think the government is trying to shut everything down so that we see how much the American people need them. But I see it as just the opposite. I see how much we rely on them and should change the system so that they don’t have so many touch points in our lives so that whichever government party is in the White House, they can’t tell the rest of us Americans what we can and can’t do. And who is suffering right now? The children. And that makes me frustrated and sad.
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