Your dog certainly has it made in life, doesn't he? Most dogs have lives that are no different from what Garfield has. They get up in the morning, and the most they do is to chase after birds in the yard and then go back to sleep. But that's not the way it is for every dog. Believe it or not, there aren't actual jobs for dogs out there. And not just dogs that work for the police.
Follow the history of man's friendship with canines, and you come to see that dogs weren't domesticated for their companionship, originally. They were domesticated for the valuable services they could provide with their skills. People took dogs in and trained them millennia ago for the way they could guard well and hunt. These days, the job market for dogs hs really expanded. There are all kinds of new jobs for dogs out there – even ones you never knew existed.
There was an article in the New York Times not long ago a doubt how dogs these days are allowed in court. These dogs are specially trained by the government and are provided by the courts to vulnerable witnesses who find it hard to come out and speak out. The friendly dog sits next to the witness right in the witness box, and the witness can hug the dog and pet it and gain strength from its affectionate presence. That's one kind of job for a dog.
It isn't just vulnerable witnesses who need the strength a dog is capable of giving them. When young children and the elderly need to overcome serious diseases in hospital or at home, they can really use the kind of affectionate unconditional affection that appears to come from a good dog.
A lot of us could really gain strength in life in certain situations if we just had a beautiful dog to pet for some time. A doctor will usually have knowledge of where you can find a therapy dog if you should need one.
You have heard of police dogs and firefighter dogs, haven't you? They are trained in all kinds of sniffing tasks to be able to find survivors in a fire accident, drugs that someone might be smuggling in all sorts of other things. But you might be surprised now that trained dogs are an integral part of many military units. US SEAL teams, for instance, always include dogs. They trained those dogs to be able to tell regular people apart from enemy fighters. They go on the battlefield equipped with bulletproof vests and everything.
How wonderful it would be if we could smell as many things as dogs can. Most jobs for dogs revolve around their sense of smell. In German hospitals, if a doctor suspects that you might have cancer, he doesn't readily sent you to a biopsy. He sends you to a cancer sniffing dog. Cancer sniffing dogs are way, way more accurate than any biopsy ever can be.
Follow the history of man's friendship with canines, and you come to see that dogs weren't domesticated for their companionship, originally. They were domesticated for the valuable services they could provide with their skills. People took dogs in and trained them millennia ago for the way they could guard well and hunt. These days, the job market for dogs hs really expanded. There are all kinds of new jobs for dogs out there – even ones you never knew existed.
There was an article in the New York Times not long ago a doubt how dogs these days are allowed in court. These dogs are specially trained by the government and are provided by the courts to vulnerable witnesses who find it hard to come out and speak out. The friendly dog sits next to the witness right in the witness box, and the witness can hug the dog and pet it and gain strength from its affectionate presence. That's one kind of job for a dog.
It isn't just vulnerable witnesses who need the strength a dog is capable of giving them. When young children and the elderly need to overcome serious diseases in hospital or at home, they can really use the kind of affectionate unconditional affection that appears to come from a good dog.
A lot of us could really gain strength in life in certain situations if we just had a beautiful dog to pet for some time. A doctor will usually have knowledge of where you can find a therapy dog if you should need one.
You have heard of police dogs and firefighter dogs, haven't you? They are trained in all kinds of sniffing tasks to be able to find survivors in a fire accident, drugs that someone might be smuggling in all sorts of other things. But you might be surprised now that trained dogs are an integral part of many military units. US SEAL teams, for instance, always include dogs. They trained those dogs to be able to tell regular people apart from enemy fighters. They go on the battlefield equipped with bulletproof vests and everything.
How wonderful it would be if we could smell as many things as dogs can. Most jobs for dogs revolve around their sense of smell. In German hospitals, if a doctor suspects that you might have cancer, he doesn't readily sent you to a biopsy. He sends you to a cancer sniffing dog. Cancer sniffing dogs are way, way more accurate than any biopsy ever can be.
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