It can be hard to remain positive after spending weeks or months cooped up in the hospital, and it’s even harder during the holidays when all you want to do is spend quality time at home with family.
In order to cheer patients up, the San Gabriel Valley Medical Center in California brings in a special visitor named Santo to help everyone forget about being sick, even if it’s just for a moment. The patients often look forward to Santo and his owner’s visit, but in his most recent trip to the hospital, Santo was even more cheerful than he normally is.
Santo and another therapy dog visit the hospital on a regular basis and even have their own official ID badges. “The patients are delighted to see him come down the hallway in the VW,” a hospital spokeswoman said. “Everybody loves it, everyone looks forward to the dogs coming in.”
Normally Santo doesn’t come dressed up, but when he visited this past week, he arrived in an adorable festive outfit and even decorated his remote-controlled VW car. “My mom works at a hospital & they have this service dog go around to cheer up patients. Here he is earlier today with the Christmas spirit,” said Julie, whose mom works at the hospital and shared the precious photos on social media.
“The pictures are so cute and you can tell that it makes people happy and it makes them smile just looking at it,” she said.
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Hospital Lets Therapy Dog Spread Christmas Cheer is an article from: LifeDaily