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  • Greene, Melissa Fay. author.
     
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  • Shirk, Karen.
     
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    The underdogs : children, dogs, and the power of unconditional love / Melissa Fay Greene.
    by Greene, Melissa Fay. author.
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    Subjects
  • 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.
  • Publisher Info: 
    New York, NY : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2016]
    ©2016
    Edition: 
    First edition.
    Description: 
    344 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
    RDA Types: 
    text
    unmediated
    volume
    ISBN: 
    9780062218513
    0062218514
    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.
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    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.
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