Now Here's One To Make You Smile.......

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I know I've posted a lot of discussions about animal abuse that have been pretty upsetting. So I've decided to cheer you all up with a positive, heartwarming story that comes from the ASPCA website itself. I hope it brings everyone a smile. ASPCA SUCCESS STORY OF THE WEEK: BEDSIDE MANNERS When Julie Frank first met Nakai—a ten-month-old Australian cattle dog—at her local shelter, she was immediately told the pup was untrainable. But Julie found the canine sweet enough to take home—and, as it turns out, handled with patience and love, the dog was destined to become indispensable to her. Six years after Nakai entered her life, Julie badly injured her back at work. “The worse it got, the more I depended upon Nakai to do for me,” she says. And when Julie was forced to retire for medical reasons, she had Nakai certified as a working service dog. “One night I stood up and my right knee locked,” remembers Julie. “I found it impossible to straighten, and it was terribly painful. So, at 4:00 A.M., Nakai helped me get dressed and pack, and off to the local hospital we went.” Once at the hospital, Nakai did not leave Julie’s side. The pooch lay with her on the gurney in the emergency room and accompanied her to the X-ray room and to an MRI. “Everyone loved her,” Julie says—and one of the nurses even volunteered to stay with Nakai while Julie had emergency surgery. “When I woke up in the recovery room,” Julie remembers, “the first thing the nurse said was, ‘Your dog is here to see you.’ That really perked me up. I looked down and there she was.” Nakai jumped up on Julie’s hospital bed and stayed there until she was released. “No dog is untrainable,” Julie says. “It just takes some time, love and patience. I don't know what I ever did in my life to deserve Nakai, but we formed an instant bond that has gotten stronger everyday. She truly is a gift.”