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Somerton Masonic
Village:
After our assessment day the previous week, I rang Pat and
Jenny to confirm arrangements. Yes, Jan and Pat would bring their
Goldens, Jazz and Ben; and Jenny would bring Doti, the Greyhound,
but not Suni as she was on medication which had made her incontinent - I
really couldn't see that this would be a problem as she would have fitted
in beautifully with any dementia group!
Tuesday, the day
before the visit I phoned the home and they were very welcoming and said
there would be "about 50 in a circle in a large
room".
At this number I
freaked out, three people, four dogs and 50 oldies = one
nightmare!!
Wednesday arrived and
the four of us with two goldens, two borders and one greyhound front up to
a small cosy room with about 20+ residents in it at one time.
I guess we would have had about 40 pass through during the hour we were
there. There also was a large number of staff as well as
numerous volunteers helping out.
Our dogs were a big
hit and we were all on our best best behaviour - and we
left safe in the knowledge that there was not one single crumb of food
scraps on the floor anywhere. |
As a reward we took the dogs to
the local dog park for a free run - and they were very very
relieved to be there, believe me!!!
Many thanks Ben,
Jazz, Doti, Dayna and Ella for making our first team visit a very
successful venture.
Nan Sharp,
Team Co-ordinator.
Jazz, Doti, Ben,
Dayna and Ella in the park |
