Hobie, a 150-pound brindle English Mastiff, lumbers slowly down the hallway of Aspen Ridge Memory Care as Johnny Cash’s “Ring of Fire” drifts from an entertainment room filled with a dozen or so elderly residents suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, dementia or other memory loss. Hobie’s handler, Jennifer Horsman, leads him by leash, keeping him close. […]
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Helping Paws
From therapy dogs to service animals, special pups help people in more ways than one