Eleven Bright Spot Therapy Dogs attended the Puppy Love event held at Elms College in Chicopee, MA, yesterday. What a great group of dogs! All so well behaved. They were model Therapy Dogs as groups of students flocked into the faculty dining room to meet and pet each one.
It’s alway a pleasure to bring a group of our Therapy Dogs to a college campus. The students get such enjoyment out of interacting with the dogs. Just hanging out with them and relaxing. Many talk about missing their own dog at home. They are also genuinely interested in talking to the volunteers about the training dogs must go through to become Therapy Dogs and learning about the impact Therapy Dogs have on children, adults, and elders who receive visits in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, and other health care and educational environments.
Therapy Dog events on college campuses are so well-received by the students that college administrators now sign their schools up well ahead to insure a date on our event calendar for both mid-term and final exams. Since most colleges hold exams around the same time period, we are able to accommodate only those schools that have signed up at least a semester in advance.