Christmas PAT Visit - Day 1 (Part 2)
posted by Mack at 20:52
Like Troy said, we did a visit with Pat and Lucy and Helen and Shauna for PAT. Troy's told you about the first few places we went, but there's a couple more to go.
Our next visit was to a ward were people who have Huntington's Disease live. We were quoit excited by this as Pat would like us to visit people here once dad's all sorted with 'is training. As soon as we walked in a lovely lady I'll call Alice came up to greet us. It turns out she really likes dogs an' wants to take one of us for a walk. We couldn't do it today as we were on a tight schedule like, but Alice and a nurse and Pat and dad had a chat, and to cut a long one short, in the new year Alice will be allowed to take Jack for a walk with a carer; well, you'd've thought all Alice's Christmas' had come at once.
Another lass - Sandra - took a right shine to me. She wanted to hold my lead, which was fine; trouble was she didn't want to give it back when it was time to go!! In the end dad unclipped me and we went out of the room; we did get my lead back too.
Last visit of the afternoon was to a ward for the older man. One chap, Alan, was really looking forward to Christmas; he had his Santa hat on and had a singing Rudolph. As we left he gave Pat, Helen and dad one of his paintings.
Our Painting
Like Troy said, if this is what being a PAT dog is about it's blooming great. Dad's explained a bit about some of the reasons that people are there. If we can help - even in a tiny way - to make there stay there a bit nicer it's great, and from what Jack said on his first visit it seems people look forward to you going to see them, and we like people that like us. I'm looking forward to the next visit.
Our next visit was to a ward were people who have Huntington's Disease live. We were quoit excited by this as Pat would like us to visit people here once dad's all sorted with 'is training. As soon as we walked in a lovely lady I'll call Alice came up to greet us. It turns out she really likes dogs an' wants to take one of us for a walk. We couldn't do it today as we were on a tight schedule like, but Alice and a nurse and Pat and dad had a chat, and to cut a long one short, in the new year Alice will be allowed to take Jack for a walk with a carer; well, you'd've thought all Alice's Christmas' had come at once.
Another lass - Sandra - took a right shine to me. She wanted to hold my lead, which was fine; trouble was she didn't want to give it back when it was time to go!! In the end dad unclipped me and we went out of the room; we did get my lead back too.
Last visit of the afternoon was to a ward for the older man. One chap, Alan, was really looking forward to Christmas; he had his Santa hat on and had a singing Rudolph. As we left he gave Pat, Helen and dad one of his paintings.
Our Painting
Like Troy said, if this is what being a PAT dog is about it's blooming great. Dad's explained a bit about some of the reasons that people are there. If we can help - even in a tiny way - to make there stay there a bit nicer it's great, and from what Jack said on his first visit it seems people look forward to you going to see them, and we like people that like us. I'm looking forward to the next visit.
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