The Best Medicine
Kids are my most favorite people ever and not only cause they smell like food. It’s because they have angel hearts kind of like dogs do. Hearts filled with love and hugs, exactly what a beagle of my size needs.
This mornin an important email came to our house. It said, hey you guys get that cute beagle back to Newtown CT for a memorial event marking the 6 month anniversary of the bad things that happened there. In case you missed my blog about Newtown, my visit to one of the schools there in January of this year was to help their angel hearts stop hurting so much.
The last time we were there I could tell that their tiny hearts were sad and a little bit scared too. I helped them by sitting close to them and letting them squeeze me til I could barely breathe. It’s okay I like hugs like that; I never had them before in my last life and can’t seem to ever get enough of them now.
Sometimes bein an ambassador has to go in the back seat cause someone needs a therapy dog more that they need educations about animal testing. Most of them don’t know about where I came from cause when I am a therapy dog we don’t tell them. Sometimes they see my ear tattoos and ask why I have them. We tell them that I got them from a different place before I came to my forever home; a place where I learned how important it is to be brave. When I go I’ll tell them that sometimes it’s hard to be brave when you’re scared, I understand. It’s okay, us dogs are going to hang around until you feel safe and brave again.
So on Saturday June 15th please remember in yur own hearts to think of all the peoples in Newtown.
Luv n Wags,
Juno
Juno’s First Therapy Dog Visit ~ June 2011