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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBlind Golden Retriever 'Smiley' Warms Hearts as Therapy Dog
A golden retriever named Smiley is living up to his name as a therapy dog who brightens the days of patients and nursing home residents in the small town of Stouffville, Canada.
Smiley was born without eyes, but is still able to work as a St. Johns Ambulance service dog in Ontario. The dogs owner, Joanne George, rescued the dog from a puppy mill, when he was about 1 or 2 years old.
He was very scared, [the dogs] had never been out of that barn, George recalled, adding that Smiley quickly bonded with another one of his dogs, a deaf Great Dane named Tyler.
Tyler was so bouncy and crazy and happy go lucky and [Smiley] turned into the same dog, George said. He came out from underneath the tables where he was always hiding.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/blind-golden-retriever-smiley-warms-hearts-therapy-dog/story?id=29533746
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Blind Golden Retriever 'Smiley' Warms Hearts as Therapy Dog (Original Post)
joeybee12
Mar 2015
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dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)1. damn...that got me all misty eyed.
I am so glad he was rescued, but so sorry he cannot see.
Goldies rule my heart.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)2. So sweet he bonded with a deaf canine buddy.
He really blossomed in his forever home.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)3. That is so sweet.
-sniff- Who's choppin' onions in here?
magical thyme
(14,881 posts)4. dam who is chopping onions around here...