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Top Dog Award - Woogie Nordan
Top Dog Award - Woogie Nordan
Nicole Harer
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Sat Aug 13, 2011 @ 09:05PM
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Winner of
Therapy Top Dog Award-2004
Love Cannot Be Seen or Heard
the story of
Woogie Nordan
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Lori Woodward, her Therapy Dog, Venus, my Therapy Dog Woogie, and I went to the mental health center in Paris and visited the adults and kids sections two weeks ago. There was one young man, about 15 or 16, that was there. He was sitting on the floor and Woogie nosed over to him and then swung his butt around to try to sit in his lap. I told the boy that Woogie wanted to sit in his lap, and he allowed him to do so. The boy then stretched out on the floor on his back and Woogie laid right on top of him with all four draped over the sides and proceeded to give him a facial. The boy put his arms around him and just let him go to town. They tried to get the camera and get a picture, but couldn't find one in time. The boy seemed pleased that Woogie liked him and felt comfortable enough to lie on top of him and be friendly. When I read this from Lori, it just gave me goose bumps. No one said anything to us while we were there and there must have been about 10 adult counselors present during the visit. Strange isn't it, that Woogie would pick that one out of a bunch of about a dozen or more kids that were sitting on the floor. |
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Dear Monica & all my friends at Lexington Humane Society,
Just wanted to tell you that I am well and doing just great in my new home! I've been here for almost five months now!! The rest of the canine gang that lives here is tolerating me pretty well...given that I can't pick up on the "doggie" body language and signals. I don't have accidents in the house and I learned the floorplan within just a few days, even out in the big backyard, too!!! I know just how far I can go there and run like crazy without hitting a tree, the porch or the fence!! I also know exactly where the biscuit can is! My "parents" tell me I am soooooo smart!!! The first few days, I was pretty anxious and nervous....but they slept beside me for the first few nights just so they could reach out and touch me when I awoke and started to cry. When I felt their touch, I knew I was safe and could lie down again......and after a week, I was sleeping just fine through the night, right beside the bed. Such a brave boy am I! Mom & Dad (Bill & Laura Nordan) tell me every day just how much they love me and how I've blessed their lives! That's the way I feel about all of you at LHS.....you gave me a chance at a new life when most others would have considered placing me as too hopeless a task. But you didn't and your efforts helped me find my new life. You know, even though I'm blind and deaf, I can sense the love they have for me in the way they stroke my head and hold me close...kindness and caring can be "felt" in many ways. I don't have to hear their voices to know it, or see the way they smile at me when I smack my head into a door frame! My tail is wagging all the time. I get to go on long walks, camping trips with their Civil War reenactments (everyone is amazed that gunshots and cannons bother me not, and I'll never tell my secret:) and now I have a job. Mom took me to get my CGC (Canine Good Citizenship testing) and my therapy title tonight. I am officially Woogie Nordan, CGC, ThD. Now I can visit nursing homes, children's centers, schools and all the other cool places therapy dogs can go!!!!!!!! It's no secret, though, that my new family is happy that I will be with them for the rest of my life. It will be a long and happy one and I thank you for that gift. Keep up the good work you guys do there! You truly do save lives. May God bless and keep all of you. Love always, "Woogie" Nordan P.S. if you're wondering how I passed my obedience test.....Sit means a hand on top of my butt, Down means a hand on my shoulder area, Heel is easy due to my unusual disabilities (tend to naturallydo that to know exactly where mom is so she can help me walk thru an area) and yes, I do this on flat collar and loose leash, meeting and greeting other dogs is a non-issue for me as I am very friendly and my sense of smell works perfectly (as my perfect Recall attest to...mom can come outside and I smell her scent and come to her....from a distance, I can recall on a leash to her scent by the vibration from the leash that tells me she is wanting me to move towards her). Mom going out-of-site for 3 minutes is a non issue. I love strangers andwill stay right with them until mom is back and I don't cry for her at all. Grooming is awesome and I'll let anyone run comb over me and yes, I can tell a friendly stranger is ready to pet me by the scent of their approach and mom asking for a Sit and then they pet me all over as I wiggle and wag. Best of all....no one knew I was a "physically challenged K-9" until the test was way over and I had met everyone and then Liz (my evaluator) told them. The whole group was floored. Not one of them had picked up on it even while I was being petted and loved on and tested:) There are no limitations in life....there is what you choose to do and what you choose not to do....and I choose to live life to the fullest. Mom's Story: I love him dearly. If you need other info that what was in his letter to Lexington Humane, let me know. He sent that to them in March of this year. You can just look at his sweet face and know that's what he's thinking, he is such a happy boy. His owner during his first two years used him to breed - sad, since his deafness and blindness are genetic defects - deafness from the white coloring (per the vet) and hypoopthalmia (small, underdeveloped eyes). He decided he didn't want himanymore and surrendered him to LHS. The adult children of this man found out and called LHS and said they would come and get him. LHS went ahead and neutered him (praise God!!) and the family never came for him (again!! thank God!!). LHS decided to place him for adoption as a special needs canine since he'd already been neutered. His picture and story were forwarded to me by Mark Kindred at Wolf Run - and we called to foster him. Well, after the first look at that face, I was a goner. I knew as soon as we got him home that he was "home." He's been an absolute joy and no problem at all. He'd memorized the yard and house - within a few days. We have a routine with all the dogs, so he's fit right in with very little adjustment. |
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UPDATE:
Liz,
thanks again for the additional articles . . got some reading to do!! I have some pictures from a nursing home visit at Halloween with Woogie and some of the residents. Also, the visit we had last Friday to the public middle school in Elizabethtown (Hardin Co) went great. We visited 3 classes for an hour each: the first was for a class of deaf and hearing impaired kids, the second was a group of moderate to severe mentally handicapped kids (autism, cerebral palsy, etc) and the third was a larger group of kids with mild mental/physical conditions (ie. Down's syndrome, learning disabilities, etc). They all loved having a dog visit. I was surprised at how well Woogie handled the PAINFUL grabbing of his tail, face, ears, paws and whatever else she could reach by one autistic child of about 12 yrs. I had to keep pulling her off him and telling her to "be nice" - but the Woogster just laid there and didn't make a peep or try to jerk away. He usually will try to move quickly away when he's hurt by someone he doesn't know.
Got pics of that visit, but need to get them developed. Will send you some if you'd like for his bio or however else you want to use them.
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