Published 20:01 IST, May 19th 2020
Therapy dog awarded doctorate degree for his 'services' in Virginia
A therapy dog has been awarded an honorary doctorate degree by Virginia Tech University, the US for serving its students and staff over the years.
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A rapy dog has been awarded an horary doctorate degree by Virginia Tech University, US for serving its students and staff over years. According to reports, Moose, a Labror retriever has been serving university’s COOK Counseling centre for last 6 years. As of w, pooch has aided in more than 7,500 counselling sessions and over 500 outreach events.
Dr Moose Davis
Like all or universities in US, Virginia based university also conducted its gruation ceremony online. During virtual commencement ceremony, eight-year-old Moose was awarded an horary doctorate in veterinary medicine. Later, university released a statement online stating that it was recognising work of “Dr Moose Davis” who h spend "a career serving and supporting" university community.
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Speaking to international media reporters, dog’s owner Trent Davis said that students at university talk a lot about how Moose has “broken down stigma” around mental health care on campus. He ded that Veternatians h a high rate of suicide and profession could be quite disturbing. However, Moose has helped students and staff a lot, refore. he deserves recognition.
Meanwhile, Moose has his own medical problems. According to reports, he was recently diagsed with prostate cancer, for which he has undergone riation, chemorapy, and or rapies. Davis reportedly said that his treatment was ongoing but he remains his usual cheerful self.
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On similar lines of using dogs for rapy, kids in United States of America are w reing to dogs on zoom calls. A Washington based n-profit organisation People. Animals. Love (PAL) has switched in-person meetups between dogs and kids to a virtual version. According to reports, initiative aims at ding hundreds of American kids who are w practising reings.
According to reports, PAL coordinates about 500 individually owned dogs and few cats to comfort people in need like those in prison, old homes or libraries. However, as threat of COVID-19 grew, organisation has w started young reers programme to keep good work going. Speaking about initiative, James Haworth, executive director of PAL said that kids were often frightened while reing in front of ir teachers however dogs me up a comfortable audience.
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20:01 IST, May 19th 2020