Benefits of having a dog

Question
I was wondering if you could help me with a task i have to accomplish by Monday Febuary 27th. I would greatly appreciate if you could help me by asnwering questions for my interview.
1. In what ways do you believe dogs can be beneficial to someone?
2. Have you ever known or heard of someone who has had help from a dog in anywa?
3. Has a dog ever helped you with anything?


Answer
Hi Brittany, Here are the answers to your questions:

1.  Dogs are beneficial to people in many ways.  Companionship, helping disabled people, assisting people in work i.e. search & rescue, police work, farm work etc.  

2.  I have trained many dogs to work with disabled people.  The biggest thrill is to see a dog who is a companion to a disabled person become also their working assist.  To see the transformation from simple pet to actual working assistant is the greatest thing to see because the dog is doing it for nothing but love.

3.  I worked in search & rescue and personally trained my own rescue dog to work by my side.  It was the most exciting time of my life working side by side with my dog searching for people.  Once we helped successfully find a lost show puppy at a dog show. That was unique as we had never searched for an animal before, just people.  

Hope this helps,

Dawn