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Tails Of Success
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| November 17, 2007 |
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Therapy Dogs -- The Gift of Unconditional Love
In this show Sabrina speaks with Darrell Murphy and Ginny Mills who are both volunteers at Northridge Hospital along with their canine partners. Ginny talks about how the program at Northridge came to be and her role in that. Darrell, who is a tester/observer with Therapy Dogs Inc. talks about his role in the certification process. Both share personal stories of lives that have been touched by their dog's visits. |
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Episode Segments:
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Getting into Pet Therapy
Darrell and Ginny share with Sabrina their personal experience of getting into animal-assisted therapy. |
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Starting the Pet Therapy Program at Northridge Hospital
Ginny shares with Sabrina what she did to get the program at Northridge Hospital up and running. |
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What it's like to work in a Hospital
Ginny and Darrell talk about what it's like to do pet-assisted therapy in a hospital environment. |
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The Impact of Animal-assisted Therapy
Darrell and Ginny share with Sabrina some of the heart-warming and wonderful stories of how their dog's visits have impacted patients and staff alike. |
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Links to Related Websites:
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www.NorthridgeHospital.org
For more information on the Rehabilitation programs at Northridge Hospital Medical Center |
www.therapydogs.com
To find out more about Therapy Dogs Inc., click on this link |
www.deltasociety.org
To learn more about animal-assisted therapy click on this link |
www.loveon4paws.org
To find out more about therapy dog programs click here |
www.tdi-dog.org
For information about Therapy Dogs International click on this link |
www.tailsofsuccess.com
For more information about Sabrina Schneppat as a dog trainer, her award-winning pet portraiture, or to submit questions or a dog that you think could be the "Pet of the Month" click on this link |
www.myspace.com/lincmusic
Special thanks to Craig Lincoln for his music taken from "Cats and Dogs" |
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| Guest(s) Appearing on this Episode |
Ginny Mills
 Ginny Mills started doing pet therapy 10 years ago with her Golden Retriever, Belle, at the Holy Cross Hospital. Later Belle also did therapy work at Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles. Six years ago Ginny became the coordinator of the “Paws that Refresh” Program at Northridge Hospital Medical Center and loves training new pet therapy teams there. Currently Ginny has two Golden Retrievers, Molly and Bentley, who work at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Holy Cross Hospital, and Brighton Gardens Nursing Home. Bentley won the 2007 G.R.A.C.E. Award at the Golden Retriever Club of America Nationals for his Pet-Assisted Therapy work. Both Molly and Bentley are registered with Therapy Dogs Inc. |
Darrell Murphy
 Darrell Murphy has been training dogs for years and started doing pet therapy 10 years ago with his Great Dane, Shelby, with the “Pets with a Purpose Program” at Providence Holy Cross Hospital in Mission Hills and with Therapy Dogs Inc. out of Cheyenne Wyoming.
Darrell has been a Tester/Observer with Therapy Dogs Inc. for 9 years and has, with the help of his wife Mary who is also a Tester/Observer, registered in excess of 150 to 200 Handler/Dog teams for Therapy Dog work in that time. These dogs go on to hospitals such as Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Providence Holy Cross Hospital, Libraries and many other health and medical facilities.
Darrell and his wife Mary currently have two dogs that they use for therapy work. Shelby, an 11 year old Great Dane and Nala, a 2 year old Great Dane/English Mastiff mix.
Darrell has also been an American Kennel Club “Canine Good Citizen” (CGC) Evaluator for 6 years.
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