meet olive a three-year-old Dalmatian
with a talent for making people feel
better
olive and her owner Stephanie Cooper
Greenberg spend their days visiting
patients as part of the pet therapy
program at Johns Hopkins Hospital when
the dogs come in the room people just
light up and they just universally love
to have a visit from a dog
grace Bowser says a visit from Olive
changes her whole day to just warms my
spirit so much I'm a dog person so to
have something comfy when you're feeling
so uncomfortable in the hospital is
really nice
eight years ago Stephanie became a
volunteer for pet partners an
organization dedicated to improving
people's health through positive
interactions with therapy animals a lot
of good work goes into becoming therapy
dog team were evolved here army and we
love what we do the program has gone
from just a handful of teams to now 15
in the span of eight years Stephanie
knows that's partly because of the work
ethic of dogs like olive I'm pressing
her driver she knows exactly what to do
and how to approach a patient and how to
react to a patient but universally dogs
are very very tuned in to someone's
emotional needs
she says the dogs can put patients at
ease in a way that humans can't yes it's
very nice kind of a creature comfort
from home in a way therapy dogs are now
being universally recognized for how
they can help with healing as they
continue to dig deeper into the hearts
of those who need them the most
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