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Item Information   Holdings       More by this author     Greene, Melissa Fay author.     Subjects     Shirk, Karen.     Shirk, Karen.     Service dogs     Service dogs -- Training.     Animals as aids for people with disabilities.     Human-animal relationships -- Psychological aspects.     Children and animals.     Pets -- Social aspects.     Dogs -- Therapeutic use.     Service dogs     Service dogs -- Training.     Animals and people with disabilities.     Human-animal relationships -- Psychological aspects.     Animals as aids for people with disabilities.     Children and animals.     Dogs -- Therapeutic use.     Human-animal relationships -- Psychological aspects.     Pets -- Social aspects.     Service dogs     Service dogs -- Training.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Greene, Melissa Fay author.       by title:      The Underdogs : chil...         MARC Display

The Underdogs : children, dogs, and the power of unconditional love / Melissa Fay Greene. by Greene, Melissa Fay author. New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016] Description:  344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Juke -- 4 paws for ability -- Connor -- Karen & Piper -- Lucy -- Casey & Connor -- Karen & Ben -- Logan -- Hero dogs -- Iyal -- Shelter dogs -- Prison dogs -- Lucy & Jolly -- Casey & Connor II -- Logan & Juke -- Eddie Hill & Timber & Dante & Keeper & Jiminy -- Micha & Casey -- Iyal & Chancer. Summary:  Karen Shirk, felled at age twenty-four by a neuromuscular disease and facing life as a ventilator-dependent, immobile patient, was turned down by every service dog agency in the country because she was "too disabled." Her nurse encouraged her to tone down the suicidal thoughts, find a puppy, and raise her own service dog. Karen did this, and Ben, a German shepherd, dragged her back into life. "How many people are stranded like I was," she wondered, "who would lead productive lives if only they had a dog?" A thousand state-of-the-art dogs later, Karen Shirk's service dog academy, 4 Paws for Ability, is restoring broken children and their families to life. Long shunned by scientists as a manmade, synthetic species, and oft-referred to as "Man's Best Friend" almost patronizingly, dogs are finally paid respectful attention by a new generation of neuroscientists and animal behaviorists. Melissa Fay Greene weaves the latest scientific discoveries about our co-evolution with dogs with Karen's story and a few stories of suffering children and their heartbroken families. Genre:  Nonfiction.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Copy Status   Calmar Campus Library Circulation Stacks (Calmar) 362.4 Gre 2016 Checked In Add Copy to MyList Format: HTMLPlain textDelimited Subject:   Email to:

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