Into these modern wonder tales, she weaves the latest scientific discoveries about the inner lives of dogs. Melissa Fay Greene tells the stories of isolated children, struggling parents, and the marvelous dogs who gallop into their lives. How many people are stranded like I was, she wondered, who could lead productive lives with a service dog?Ī thousand dogs later, Karen Shirk s service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring broken children and their families to life. Her nurse encouraged her to raise her own service dog, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life.
THE UNDERDOGS tells the story of Karen Shirk: felled at age 24 by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as an immobile, deeply isolated and depressed, ventilator-dependent patient, she was rejected by every service dog agency in the country as too disabled.
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