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NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children
CNS News ^ | 10/7/13 | Penny Starr

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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KEYWORDS: democrats; dogs; nih; shutdown; stops; therapy
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To: Nachum

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


21 posted on 10/08/2013 4:32:49 PM PDT by Argus
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To: Nachum

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.


22 posted on 10/08/2013 4:36:15 PM PDT by maxwellsmart_agent
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To: machogirl

Muslims and DemoncRATS hide behind children.


23 posted on 10/08/2013 4:37:40 PM PDT by Arm_Bears (Refuse; Resist; Rebel; Revolt!)
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To: Arm_Bears

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


24 posted on 10/08/2013 4:51:03 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: Nachum
“Rules For Radicals”...page 213,365 and 502.
25 posted on 10/08/2013 5:02:57 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: Nachum

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


26 posted on 10/08/2013 5:23:31 PM PDT by Bronzy
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To: Nachum

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


27 posted on 10/08/2013 5:47:48 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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Now imagine your health care tied to this autocratic regime!

28 posted on 10/08/2013 5:54:41 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Nachum; MestaMachine; Rushmore Rocks; Oorang; sweetiepiezer; txnuke; La Lydia; aragorn; Velveeta; ..
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NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children

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29 posted on 10/08/2013 6:16:35 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: Gene Eric

We don’t have to ‘imagine’ ... it IS.


30 posted on 10/08/2013 6:24:39 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Monkey Face

Barry, Harry, and Jarrey


31 posted on 10/08/2013 6:24:58 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: LucyT

Evil heathens.


32 posted on 10/08/2013 6:25:48 PM PDT by onyx (Please Support Free Republic - Donate Monthly! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, Let Me know!)
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To: Nachum

They arrested vets?


33 posted on 10/08/2013 6:31:50 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: LucyT

This is just WRONG. They’re little kids.


34 posted on 10/08/2013 6:47:56 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Nachum

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.


35 posted on 10/08/2013 7:13:50 PM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Nachum

36 posted on 10/08/2013 7:58:03 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

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


37 posted on 10/08/2013 8:00:07 PM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: workerbee

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/


38 posted on 10/08/2013 8:04:51 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Jane Long

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.


39 posted on 10/08/2013 8:34:07 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Joe 6-pack; Nachum
Therapy dogs bring joy to sick children and to the very old in resthomes. Obama is the opposite........


40 posted on 10/08/2013 8:53:59 PM PDT by potlatch
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