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However, at the pediatric unit at Kaiser Permanente San Diego Medical Center, a few puppy-paws are a warm welcome.
“You can train a dog to do almost anything, but you can’t train them to be calm, gentle, sweet and that’s him," said Carol Stevens, a pet therapy volunteer, describing her poodle"Georgie-Porgie." Steven retired from a sales position at Kaiser in 2008 and has been volunteering her time bringing her therapy dog to the hospitals ever since.
"You would be amazed the people who laugh, and giggle, and smile who perhaps haven't done that for a few days because of where they are, and if I can do that in the life of someone, why wouldn't you do that?" said Stevens.Several therapy dogs made their way from one room to another, greeting patients and staff to put a smile on their faces.
"It was great to have visitors, especially furry visitors," said one patient's mother. Her son has been in the hospital for close to a week."Research has shown that simply petting a dog lowers the stress hormone cortisol, while the social interaction between people and their dogs actually increases levels of the feel-good hormone oxytocin" John Hopkins Medicine
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