Posted on 10/08/2013 3:33:39 PM PDT by Nachum
(CNSNews.com) – The Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health has suspended its dog therapy program because of the government shutdown, according to John Burklow, spokesperson for NIH.
Burklow said the dogs, which pay visits to patients in the hospital, including children with cancer, have to seen by veterinarians, and a “team” on staff made the decision to suspend program.
“A vet needs to evaluate the dogs, and given that there is a 25 percent reduction in staff (furloughed), we focus our activities and staffing on the care of patients already at our hospital,” Burklow said.
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To spend some quality time pulling the lets off of spiders and kicking cats.
The list, Ping
Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list
Priests can’t say Sunday Mass to soldiers.
Barry gets lower and lower. I despise this man.
So, when did a flak become "essential personnel"?
This "shutdown" is so contrived and corrupt.
The House was ready to fund NIH fully, last week.
Did you hear that, MSM, you pathetic bunch of sycophant kneepadded tools?!?!
Obama does an amazing job of blending pathetically petty cruelty more widespread forms of evil. When it comes to harming the innocent, Obama is active at all levels.
The Andrea Mitchell version of this story will have the parents blaming the tea party and republicans.
Barry is a cruel sumbitch., inspired by Satan himself.
Well, I know this story will tug the heart strings, but I don’t care. NIH has no business doing this stuff in the first place. It would probably be handled better and more efficiently by state governments and local organizations. NIH should only be worrying about truly NATIONAL health issues, and therapy dogs for kids doesn’t seem to qualify.
I’m heartless, I know.
Please don’t call that evil, sadistic, spiteful, anti-American, communist, secret Mudslime queer a SOB. Dogs, like the therapy dogs mentioned in this article, are wonderful, decent, loving compassionate animals; calling this pure evil subhuman thing a SOB insults all dogs.
Then it should have done away with a long time ago, not to spite the opposition party in a budget fight.
You have a magnificent way with words.
Flattery will get you anywhere....
*cheer!*
O’Bastard is better.
And children are the ones who can’t protest, so they are the ones that Barry and Harry, the B***hole Twins pick on to vent their meanness and spite.
I don’t do flattery.
I say what I mean...one way or the other.
:D
Well, Muslims always attack the weakest among us...
That’s because they are bullies. They have no d***s to speak of so they try to make up for the lack in bravado. It explains why they have no respect for their women...they are afraid a woman will find a real man, and the Muslim will be “shamed.” So they use and abuse and keep them as personal mushroom people. I have refused to call them “terrorists” as it is a name of honor for them. So I call them what they really are...inadequate bullying cowards.
(And every day, I listen for Black Helicopters!)
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