From Rescue Dog To Therapy Dog - Paperback

by Shirley Sanders (Author)

I found this beautiful dog on the internet: she stole my heart and I adopted her. She was very inquisitive, investigating my apartment. I wondered if she was hyperactive because she went so rapidly from one thing to another. At the dog park, she proved to be a very fast runner.While trainable, she was a challenge and the comings and goings encountered in adopting a shelter dog and in developing that dog to have a job as a therapy dog were many. This book describes these interactions with Ginger, beginning with her running away when the door was open, to attending dog training classes in obedience, and finally, to learning how to be a therapy dog. You may recognize some of your own dog's antics in these pages.

Author Biography

Shirley Sanders, Ph. D. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she attended elementary school and junior high school. She moved to Miami Beach Florida where she attended high School and the University of Miami, earning an AB degree in Psychology. Then she went on to receive a Master's degree in general psychology and a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. She worked at the University of North Carolina School of Medicine for thirteen years full time and then practiced psychology in Chapel Hill and taught as an adjunct professor for seventeen more years. Once retired, she moved to Alamance County, North Carolina where she learned to train and to show dogs in obedience competitions. Ginger is her rescue dog that she trained to be a therapy dog. "Ginger loves everyone and enjoys giving love to people who need love.