YES YES YES, WE ARE BACK AT PRES! High Desert Therapy Dogs is so thrilled that our teams are now able to provide in person comfort to the community as restrictions are lifted and New Mexico slowly shifts back to a new normal. HDTD has been fortunate enough to have teams currently registered as volunteers …
The Saturday before Easter our Teams enjoyed a rare treat! With visitation resuming on the horizon, our two legged members have been busy scheduling vaccinations, brushing up on training, arranging opportunities with facilities and missing interacting with our community. It was time to get back to somewhat the new normal! An amazing effort by our …
2020.12.24 Avamere Rehab Christmas Eve Spreading Cheer Through the Looking Glass! Christmas Eve 2020 greeted our wagging warriors with a crisp morning and a mission to spread smiles and cheer. With that end goal in mind, our four legged friends rounded up their human pawrents and headed off to rendezvous with the rest of the …
On October 1, 2020, Presbyterian Hospital welcomed High Desert Therapy Dogs in their first phase reopening of volunteers coming back to the hospital. High Desert Therapy Dogs visited with some of the Presbyterian Physical Rehabilitation Staff.
It wasn’t an ordinary therapy dog visit; it was a COVID-19 visit. The patients were inside, on beds or wheelchairs, in walkers or on chairs. The dogs were outside, looking in the windows with goofy grins, wagging tails, alert ears. The handlers wore masks. Even though no stranger’s hand touched fur or stroked velvety ears, the results …