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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He’s certainly not presidential. He’s an embarrassment to this country. A petty, nasty little man. I’ve never before seen a president who acts like him. Not ready for prime time by a long shot. He reminds me of a petty, vindictive public school principal.
And I still would like to know where he comes from.
first president to make WAR ON AMERICA
Nope, made perfect sense to me.
Most of these dogs are in private hands any way; seems to me that the cities, counties, or state could handle this program a lot better and more efficiently in any case.
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