[nagdu] Fw: Dog Therapy for Stress.

[Elizabeth Campbell]

Hi Ed,

That's a fascinating story. Thanks for sharing.
We are fortunate to have our wonderful dogs with us all of the time, and 
yes, they are definitely wonderful about relieving stress. Seeing how happy 
Gabe is when we are going somewhere or when he is playing makes me feel 
better!

Liz

p.s. It's good to be back on the list. Somehow, my subscription preferences 
changed, but I've got things taken care of.
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ed Meskys" <edmeskys at roadrunner.com>
To: "nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>; <dogGuideUsersNH at yahoogroups.com>; "sandy 
meskys" <smeskys at roadrunner.com>
Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2011 12:00 PM
Subject: [nagdu] Fw: Dog Therapy for Stress.


> Subject: Dog Therapy for Stress.
>
>
> For Law Students With Everything, Dog Therapy for Stress.
> By TIMOTHY WILLIAMS. Black's Law Dictionary? Check.
> An Introduction to Legal Reasoning? Check.
> Small, cute dog? Check.
> Yale Law School, renowned for competitiveness and its Supreme Court
> justices, is
> embarking on a pilot program next week in which students can check out a
> 'therapy
> dog' named Monty along with the library's collection of more than one
> million
> books.
> While the law school is saying little so far about its dog-lending 
> program,
> it
> has
> distributed a memo to students with the basics: that Monty will be 
> available
> at
> the
> circulation desk to stressed-out students for 30 minutes at a time 
> beginning
> Monday,
> for a three-day trial run.
> It is well documented that visits from therapy dogs have resulted in
> increased
> happiness,
> calmness and overall emotional well-being,' Blair Kauffman, the law
> librarian,
> wrote
> in an e-mail to students.
> The school is not saying what sort of dog Monty is; what happens to him 
> when
> school
> is out of session; or how Monty himself may be kept from becoming
> overstressed
> with
> all his play dates.
> Sebastian Swett, 26, a second-year student at the law school, said he had
> signed
> up for a session with the dog, but does not necessarily think that it will
> relieve
> all the pressures that come with being a student at Yale. I don't think 
> its
> going
> to solve anybody's anxiety problems, but it's certainly nice to play with 
> a
> dog
> for
> half an hour.
> Monty, according to the memo to students, is hypoallergenic and will be 
> kept
> in
> a
> nonpublic space inside the library, presumably away from those who don't
> much
> like
> dogs.
> We will need your feedback and comments to help us decide if this will be 
> a
> permanent
> ongoing program available during stressful periods of the semester, for
> example,
> during examinations,' the note to students reads.
> A handful of other universities offer similar services, including the
> University
> of Wisconsin at Oshkosh.
> Yale Law School has kept its dog-lending plan so quiet that some faculty
> members
> were not even aware of it.
> I'm surprised to hear of it,' said John Witt, a professor who was awarded 
> a
> Guggenheim
> Memorial Foundation Fellowship last year for a project on the laws of war
> through
> American history. I've always found library books to be therapeutic. But
> maybe
> that's
> just me.
> PHOTO: Details about Monty, the Yale Law School therapy dog, have been 
> kept
> quiet.
> But dogs have had a long run as Yale's mascot, Handsome Dan, including
> Mugsy,
> right,
> in 2005. (PHOTOGRAPH BY BOB CHILD/ASSOCIATED PRESS) .
>
>
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