Therapy Dogs

My Roanoke amigo and fellow blogger CyberDave told me that he saw this tidbit of news on the TV: namely, some people were so distraught after seeing the election results that they had to seek out therapy dogs. My reaction was, “What?! Nah, you’re kidding me. That can’t be real.”

Turned out it actually was real, sorta-kinda. I don’t know how many people, if any, were treated by therapy dogs because of the election results, but ABC news aired a story called Therapy Dogs Help Stressed Voters in which they interview a woman who owns therapy dogs, and she said they could be very helpful to a person under stress, such as a distraught voter.

Then CyberDave said he was going to the Roanoke Wiener Stand in downtown Roanoke and order a couple of therapy dogs. I thought that was funny and reminded him that any dog can be a therapy dog. A chili dog, a slaw dog, a whatever dog, they can all put a warm glow into one’s tummy. That warm glow is called indigestion, but that’s another blog post.

CyberDave was as good as his word. In fact, he went to DQ and the Wiener Stand and ordered therapy dogs at both places. Predictably, his request was met with “Huh?” and “Stick to the menu.” Then he came home and blogged about it in considerably more detail than I would have thought possible. If you’re into therapy dogs – I mean wieners – I mean the hot dog kind of wiener, not the Huma Abedin’s husband kind, you can read all about it on CyberDave’s blog here. Be forewarned, though – by the time you reach the end of the post, you may find yourself drooling.