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HOMING IN GUERNSEY, ALDERNEY & SARK |
P.A.T. dogs
Malarky and Fonz visit Phil 101 years young at Clifton Nursing Home
For
those of you who are unsure Pets as Therapy (PAT)
is a national charity founded in l983. It is
unique in that it provides therapeutic visits to
hospitals, hospices, nursing and care homes,
special needs schools and a variety of other
venues by volunteers with their own friendly,
temperament tested and vaccinated dogs and cats. Please visit their website to find out more about their great work: Over the past 4 years Greyhound Rescue has had 6 of their greyhounds registered as P.A.T. dogs. Unfortunately Pyder Mann, Turk and Awesome are no longer with us and Rio has had to retire due to being diagnosed with epilepsy a couple of years ago. So now it is down to Malarky and Fonz who visit Clifton Nursing Home on a regular basis and are quite famous there On occasions, when one of the PAT dog owners is away on holiday, they also get to go to Mont a l'Abbe school to stand in for Kent a very large English Pointer and visits to Lakeside Residential Home, Clinique Pinel at St. Saviours Hospital have also been venues. Twice a year a day in town is arranged in aid of the charity and it's great to see all the different dogs mingling together and indeed to inform people of what these dogs do.
Some of the PAT dogs assemble for a charity walk Over the years the public have contributed so generously to Greyhound Rescue, we felt this was just a small way that we could put something back into the community.
Our wonderful PAT dogs Fonz and Malarky Hopefully sometime this year we will be registering another couple of our dogs as Malarky and Fonz do need a break every so often they work so hard for our Charity and indeed for P.A.T. dogs
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