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Mosby the Ministry Dog: he’s got a calling

Mosby the Golden Retriever is one of a growing breed of assistance dogs assigned to clergy and church workers to provide a special kind of help to congregants who are coping with illness, deployment to Iraq or Afghanistan, and job layoffs. The dogs offer unconditional love and comfort during visits to church as well as to hospices, hospitals, schools and nursing homes.

Mosby’s ministry is First Baptist Church of Littleton, Mass. On Sunday mornings, he helps Larry Fisher, a church greeter, hand out programs, comes to the altar during the children’s portion of the service, and licks hands at coffee hour.

Most of Mosby’s clients have been to First Baptist members, but his human companions, the Fishers, say he is available for visits to any area resident, of any religious affiliation. Mosby does not proselytize, and neither do the Fishers.

And after all, Dog is God spelled backwards. I’ve always thought there was a reason for that.:>)

via Boston.com
Hat tip to the fabulous Dick Waterman

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