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Where you can find up to date information about the program, current LAP teams and LAP therapy dogs candidates, scheduled visits, and much more.
Lend A Paw is committed to enhancing the lives of individuals experiencing physical, mental, emotional or life challenges by providing therapy dogs to offer warmth, compassion, unconditional love and a healing environment. The program is designed to rescue dogs from the shelter and train them to be therapy dogs. Individuals are also invited to join our LAP team with their own dogs provided the dogs have the required obedience and temperament for therapy work.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

A Lunchtime Visit

          Last Wednesday, June 8th, I had the pleasure of accompanying three Lend A Paw therapy teams to New Horizons in North Hills, CA. This was a lunchtime visit and everyone was so happy to see the dogs! Ash and Lisa are regulars at New Horizons, since Lisa is the leader for this site. Jim and Daisy also visit the center on a regular basis. And this was Liz and Cooper's first time visiting New Horizons; Cooper was a very popular dog! 
 Daisy is the perfect size to visit with clients in a wheelchair.
          New Horizons is a school and workplace for adults with developmental disabilities. Some of the clients like to talk about their own pets while others enjoy asking questions about the Lend A Paw dogs. But everyone enjoys visiting with the dogs and getting their pictures taken. Lisa has been taking photos of the clients with Ash and gives prints to the clients on her next visit. Most of them get so excited to see themselves in the pictures and to show everyone!
Ash, being "cool" with one of the clients!
          The hour went by very fast and pretty soon, everyone had to return to their classroom or go back to work. And after all the goodbyes, it was time for our Lend A Paw teams to get a well deserved break!

This was Liz and Cooper's first visit and they were very popular!


To see more photos from this wonderful visit, 
click on the following link: New Horizons 6-8-2011

Story and Photography by Nathalie Seguin
Posted by Nathalie Seguin at 11:19 AM
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