Pit Bull in a Wheelchair Inspires and Comforts Kids With Disabilities

Pawnation ^ | May 17, 2010 | Daphne Sashin

[solosmoke]

This Salt Lake City pit bull is melting hearts, busting stereotypes, and proving that a disability doesn't have to slow you down.

Piggy, a pit-bull/boxer mix, can walk with only her front legs. Her hind legs were paralyzed three years ago in a hit-and-run car accident that shattered most of her spine.

Secured to a cart with wheels to help her get around, Piggy volunteers as a trained therapy dog at Shriners Hospitals for Children in Salt Lake City, which provides free surgeries to children with spinal cord injuries, orthopedic disorders and other similar conditions.

Piggy is amazingly gentle, Hollingsworth says. The dog can be relied on to nuzzle a baby's nose or calmly lick a treat out of a child's hand. Sometimes, children get so excited to see Piggy that they have to be reminded to stay in their beds. She is one of four dogs that volunteer at the hospital through Intermountain Therapy Animals, a nonprofit organization that tests and trains all of its therapy dogs to make sure they work well with children and hospital patients.

[NoLibZone]

You live in the midwest!

Come to LA and walk along Venice.

99% + of the Pitbull owners are Hispanic.

I bet you you use the word profiling a lot too.

I know get where Chet99 is coming from.

Pit bull owners are a holes.

[NoLibZone]

You live in the midwest!

Come to LA and walk along Venice.

99% + of the Pitbull owners are Hispanic.

I bet you use the word profiling a lot too.

I now get where Chet99 is coming from.

Pit bull owners are a holes.

[shibumi]

Your posts say far more about your (lack of) thought process than anything I could ever write.

QED

(By the way, you ought to research your demographics a little better before generalizing about the “midwest.”

This is the county in which I reside:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_County,_Indiana

This is the city in which I work:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Chicago,_Indiana

Not exactly cornfields, eh?)

[solosmoke]

“Does anyone in your family work in a trauma center?

Which one?

My wife works at Desert Regional in PS.

You are talking , like an a hole, based on very limited info”

So are you. Anecdotal evidence should never be used in place of actual evidence, which disagrees with your claims. The majority of pit bull owners are not Mexicans, nor are they thugs. However, the majority of the pit bull owners you will see making headlines probably are irresponsible, uneducated, ignorant, naive, lazy, or criminal. Contrary to what some believe here, the dogs attacking people are not family dogs. They can’t be, by definition, if they are running the streets or chained up their whole lives.