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The UBC “ENGINEER YOUR HEALTH” dog visitation event on the 6th March 2013 was a resounding success! The students LOVED all the Pets and Friends dogs that came to share their unconditional love. All students left their 15 minute“puppy love” interaction session laughing and smiling with lots immediately posting the photos they’d taken with their ”puppy” pals to their Facebook page. One student was overheard saying as she left the room: “that was even more therapeutic than I thought it would be, I feel so much better!”
Students had booked their dog interaction session weeks in advance with all appointments booking up within a couple of days. The group size was originally two students per dog every 15 minutes, but the demand was so overwhelming the organizers doubled it to four students each appointment. There was still a constant line up all day of students without an appointment, hoping to have a chance to spend time with these wonderful Pets and Friends volunteering dogs.
A HUGE “THANK YOU” goes to our wonderful volunteers and their pets - Isable Otoya& Koda, Tammy VanderKamp & Breeze, Phil McCuthcheonson & Ozzie, Sue Ross & Kabluk, Caroll Baldwin & Wilson, Lorraine Hornby & Callie, Amanda Dunn & Pugnacious, Karin Pruss & Roxy, Leslie Bruce & Icky, Mary-Ellen Kish & Jasmine, Breanne Glinnum & Picky, Gayle Guest & Brynn, Barbara Renker & Bonniem, Jane Li & Javier, Betty Dockerill& Nemo and Kar-Yee & Chief – and Pets and Friends organizer Daphne Parker - without you, this event would not have been the great success it was.... J