The dog whisperer

I think Bree sure has a future in working with traumatized dogs. There has been a little stray dog hanging around our house for months. She is the only one who can get near him. She can't catch him or pick him up - but he will let her pet him on the head. She will sit outside on the grass and he will slowly come to her. She'll hold out her hand and he'll come to her. Sometimes he will put his paw in her hand. It is so, so sweet. So we have been feeding him along with our zoo of 4 dogs. (2 chocolate labs, 1 black lab, and beagle/pug mix puppy rescued from the pound). And Bree also has a cat that she rescued from a no-kill cat shelter up in North Carolina. She saw her online and just had to have her, promising she would take care of her, I wouldn't have to do a thing, please, please. And so far she has kept her promise. Even with her health problems she still cleans out the litter box and never forgets to feed Callie. (Sometimes her sisters pitch in with the litter box on Bree's bad days).
The dog Allie is pet sitting for is a rescue dog and is afraid of people, but she loves Bree. She runs to her, wagging her tail and licks her on the leg. Animals seem to have a sense about people. And it seems like Callie (Bree's cat) can sometimes sense her seizures and will stay right beside her and not let her get up. I know that you can get service dogs for that. It was one of the first things the neurologist mentioned to Bree (and of course my animal lover's eyes lit right up).

Today is a physical therapy day and Bree doesn't want to go. It's the only thing she really tries to fight. She doesn't exactly fight it, just begs "No, no... I don't want to go" (On her more "verbal" days) But she's got to where if she thinks we can't understand what she's saying, she won't speak at all. Sometimes her speech is a little slurred, but we can always understand her. Sometimes she does mix up her words. But still we do understand her. One of my other adopted daughters had a traumatic brain injury from a car accident and she is now a nurse. So I know she can heal, she can overcome this. If she works hard she can be anything she sets her mind to, do anything she wants. And we want to encourage her to.