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Children Read To Shelter Cats To Soothe Them

(Photos by Animal Rescue League Of Berks County. You can follow them on Facebook.)

Also good for the kids. They encourage having slow readers read to the family pets. A dog will listen to a kid read a whole book one damn sssyl-la——-ble at a time, and it will never get frustrated, or correct their pronunciation, or start playing Angry Bird because it can’t stand listening to the slowness any more. The dog will look at the kid approvingly, because, human. Human is talking. Human is interacting.

So this is a great win-win.

I’ve seen this used with great effects with a few kids I used to mentor. They had stammering or reading issues, brought in a dog and within an hour, they were completely relaxed.

Leo and Sophia (the therapy dogs) just laid there and loved every second. Thought those kids hung the moon, and the feeling was mutual.

Animal-Assisted Therapy is fantastic b

It gets no better than this.