This article was posted in the National LOAL Newsletter: http://www.loveonaleash.org/news/FEB2011.pdf

Our best guess is that Emma is a border terrier mix, probably born around January/February 2009.  I adopted her at the Danville-Boyle County (KY) Humane Society, April 2009.  She had been picked up, scavenging trash, near the local stockyards at around 8 weeks of age.  A local business person spotted her, picked her up, gave her temporary shelter and then called the Humane Society.  She nearly died of parvotype complications shortly after her adoption. Emma passed her LOAL Evaluation in January, 2010 and received National LOAL certification April, 2011.  Emma and I volunteer monthly, after work, at the Sunrise Children’s Home, Danville KY  along with 2-3 other FANTASTIC LOAL teams; at Ephraim McDowell Regional Medical Center, in the Transitional Care Unit, Behavioral Management, ER; and at the Thomas Hood Veterans Center, Wilmore KY with Pat Marcum and the Lexington, KY LOAL chapter.   I thank Emma for having such a wonderful personality to lead me to therapy dog work, for the nurse at Lake Cumberland Regional Medical Center, Somerset, KY who mentioned LOAL, and to Gloria Sams, Nancy Hansen and Pat Marcum of LOAL here in Kentucky who were so incredibly welcoming and supportive.  Contributed by Cindy Ellsworth. Danville, KY.