Article Title: Dogs Dig up More Ways to Serve

Article Source: Leslie Mann, "Dogs Dig up More Ways to Serve," The Chicago Tribune, December 24, 2006, 13-7.

1. I chose this article because:

This article is certainly interesting to me because it is about dogs that help people with disabilities or health problems. I am disabled myself, with deafness. I am also a huge dog-lover. I have one dog, a Shih-Tzu at home named Cocoa Puff, and I miss her terribly. I always believed that dogs have more abilities than they are given credit for, and this article proves that.

2. The main themes of this article were:

There are some organizations that train dogs to help people with issues such as: deafness, muscular dystrophy, SARS, cerebral palsy, polio, autism, spinal-cord injuries. Now, trainers are figuring out that dogs also have the abilities to: detect a person with a high risk for heart attack, alert a person that he/she is soon to have a seizure, and tell their......

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Title: Dogs
Approximate Word Count: 379
Approximate Pages: 2 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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