Creature Comfort

Yolanda Vodila enjoys Parker's company while she rests in her room. Vodila has five dogs of her own at home and talked about how eager she was to get back to all of them.
Heidee Regan points at Kirby and smiles while her mom, Nicole, holds her up to see the dog. Heidee was unable to touch the dogs due to her condition and cried when the dogs left her doorway.
Virginia Sanders enjoys having Kirby sit on her lap while she visits the recreational room on the Comprehensive Rehabilitation floor.
Charles Sholtis scratches Ginger's neck while he talks to Ginger's owner, Vivian Birkner, in the recreational room on the Comprehensive Rehabilitation floor at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
Barb McRae gets a personal room visit and kisses from Kirby.
Kirby makes his way down an empty hallway while the dogs head to their next rounds of visitation at Sarasota Memorial Hospital.
Each dog wears a personalized bandana while working.
Wes McRae holds Parker, while his wife, Barb, enjoys a visit from Finnegan on the Oncology floor at Sarasota Memorial Hospital. The dogs are not only beneficial to the patients but to the patients' loved ones.
Dr. Chinyere Uwah-King, right, along with third-year medical students, leans down while on the phone to pet Ginger. Uwah-King is a big fan of the pet-therapy program and always stops to pet the dogs when they visit her floor.