Deepizzaguy
There is one thing that amazes me about the powers that a dog has to improve the lives of students at South Ogden Junior High School in Ogden Utah.
Paul Woodin who is the owner of the Goldendoodle male dog named Bentley and the school librarian asked permission from the superintendent of the school to have the dog as the animal that would be inside the library at the junior high school where the students who have fright of being laughed at by their fellow students when they would read a book aloud in class would be able to overcome their fear of reading out loud to a service dog.
The idea of having Bentley who is gentle and would not harm any of the students reading a book in his presence inside the library has improved the grades of KImberlee Irvine who is an eight grade English teacher who is impressed that her students grades have improved drastically after they read books to the dog.
Bentley has been as the best friend at the school library for four years since he was a puppy. It is kind of odd to have a dog sit and listen to the students read a book out loud to him since Bentley will not make any judgements of the reading skills of the students inside of the library.
Dog fighting like rooster fighting is very ugly since it breaks my heart to see animals beaten to death in dog fights.
I like dogs since they are basically like a young brother or son to me.
What a great story and a beautiful dog!
Thank you Carol for the kind comments.
Hourray for Bentley and his race. I am amazed at how dogs can benefit anybody’s life whether as a simple pet or a ful fledged service dog and/or rescue, police dog etc. Dogs are man’s best friend but also our harbinger of faith in humanity because they do not judge us but rather love us unconditionnally. Great story and what a good addition to the school system… and all over people in need whether they are suffering from PTSD, blind, wheelchair bound, housebound etc.
I really love dogs since they are my best friend for the time period they have lived with me.
This is lovely, reading to a dog, I think this is a very good idea.
Reading to a service dog must be new since I have never heard about it until recently.
That is true since a service dog named Poochie went home to her Maker after 15 years of life in our home.
You are very welcome tasartcraft.
Great article – service dogs are amazing!
Service dogs are one way to make the lives of people like our veterans and children with special needs happier.
I really believe in both supporting and helping service dog organizations. They do amazing work!
That is a good way to continue the great work service dogs do for others.
I agree! We also sponsor several rescue organizations in the Maryland/Virginia area. The dog fighting issues of this part of the world make me nervous.