NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children

CNS News ^ | 10/7/13 | Penny Starr

[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.

[Argus]

Obama to America: “Buy my communist healthcare or I’ll shoot this therapy dog.”

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Cancelling this program is the pits. Why is it necessary to punish young children who are very sick and some dying to achieve a political end? These kids need something to spring them back to hope. This administration is stealing that.

[Arm_Bears]

Muslims and DemoncRATS hide behind children.

[machogirl]

They do. “For the children” is always for the teachers or whatever union wants more goodies. Never see these teacher unions rally “for the children’s parents” to pay less in taxes. Frauds

[Gay State Conservative]

“Rules For Radicals”...page 213,365 and 502.

[Bronzy]

Minorities, women and children hardest hit by government cuts./s

[Lizavetta]

Meanwhile, no hits in funding to illegal aliens or foreign terrorist nations.

[Gene Eric]

Now imagine your health care tied to this autocratic regime!

[LucyT]

NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children

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[MissMagnolia]

We don’t have to ‘imagine’ ... it IS.

[combat_boots]

Barry, Harry, and Jarrey

[onyx]

Evil heathens.

[Vendome]

They arrested vets?

[combat_boots]

This is just WRONG. They’re little kids.

[1010RD]

Great news. Send this and photos to all your mushy middle friends, put it on FB, twitter it.

Obama is cutting his own throat and he’ll bleed Democrats.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Jane Long]

LOL...that needs to be left at all of the closed parks and a pic taken. Like Flat Stanley...Flat 0.

[GeronL]

The House passed bills to fund NIH but the MSM doing stories about sick dying kids not getting treatment because of mean old Ted Cruz never bothered to mention that factoid/

[Slings and Arrows]

I cribbed it from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075642/posts , and I’ve been doing my best to spread it ever since.

[potlatch]

Therapy dogs bring joy to sick children and to the very old in resthomes. Obama is the opposite........