NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children

CNS News ^ | 10/7/13 | Penny Starr

[Nachum]

(CNSNews.com) – The Clinical Center at the National Institutes of Health has suspended its dog therapy program because of the government shutdown, according to John Burklow, spokesperson for NIH.

Burklow said the dogs, which pay visits to patients in the hospital, including children with cancer, have to seen by veterinarians, and a “team” on staff made the decision to suspend program.

“A vet needs to evaluate the dogs, and given that there is a 25 percent reduction in staff (furloughed), we focus our activities and staffing on the care of patients already at our hospital,” Burklow said.

[Nachum]

The #SpiteHouse took a break today from Barrycading WWII vets, arresting Viet Nam Vets, cutting off death benefits to Soldiers widows, and forcing campers to leave public parks at gun point...

To spend some quality time pulling the lets off of spiders and kicking cats.

[Nachum]

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[Slyfox]

Priests can’t say Sunday Mass to soldiers.

[machogirl]

Barry gets lower and lower. I despise this man.

[colorado tanker]

John Burklow, spokesperson for NIH

So, when did a flak become "essential personnel"?

This "shutdown" is so contrived and corrupt.

[workerbee]

The House was ready to fund NIH fully, last week.

Did you hear that, MSM, you pathetic bunch of sycophant kneepadded tools?!?!

[Pollster1]

Obama does an amazing job of blending pathetically petty cruelty more widespread forms of evil. When it comes to harming the innocent, Obama is active at all levels.

[TurboZamboni]

The Andrea Mitchell version of this story will have the parents blaming the tea party and republicans.

[bergmeid]

Barry is a cruel sumbitch., inspired by Satan himself.

[Boogieman]

Well, I know this story will tug the heart strings, but I don’t care. NIH has no business doing this stuff in the first place. It would probably be handled better and more efficiently by state governments and local organizations. NIH should only be worrying about truly NATIONAL health issues, and therapy dogs for kids doesn’t seem to qualify.

I’m heartless, I know.

[Joe 6-pack]

WOOOF!

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[libstripper]

Please don’t call that evil, sadistic, spiteful, anti-American, communist, secret Mudslime queer a SOB. Dogs, like the therapy dogs mentioned in this article, are wonderful, decent, loving compassionate animals; calling this pure evil subhuman thing a SOB insults all dogs.

[Nachum]

NIH has no business doing this stuff in the first place.

Then it should have done away with a long time ago, not to spite the opposition party in a budget fight.

[Salamander]

You have a magnificent way with words.

[Nachum]

Flattery will get you anywhere....

[Salamander]

*cheer!*

O’Bastard is better.

[Monkey Face]

And children are the ones who can’t protest, so they are the ones that Barry and Harry, the B***hole Twins pick on to vent their meanness and spite.

[Salamander]

I don’t do flattery.

I say what I mean...one way or the other.

:D

[COBOL2Java]

And children are the ones who can’t protest, so they are the ones that Barry and Harry, the B***hole Twins pick on to vent their meanness and spite.

Well, Muslims always attack the weakest among us...

[Monkey Face]

That’s because they are bullies. They have no d***s to speak of so they try to make up for the lack in bravado. It explains why they have no respect for their women...they are afraid a woman will find a real man, and the Muslim will be “shamed.” So they use and abuse and keep them as personal mushroom people. I have refused to call them “terrorists” as it is a name of honor for them. So I call them what they really are...inadequate bullying cowards.

(And every day, I listen for Black Helicopters!)

[Argus]

Obama to America: “Buy my communist healthcare or I’ll shoot this therapy dog.”

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Cancelling this program is the pits. Why is it necessary to punish young children who are very sick and some dying to achieve a political end? These kids need something to spring them back to hope. This administration is stealing that.

[Arm_Bears]

Muslims and DemoncRATS hide behind children.

[machogirl]

They do. “For the children” is always for the teachers or whatever union wants more goodies. Never see these teacher unions rally “for the children’s parents” to pay less in taxes. Frauds

[Gay State Conservative]

“Rules For Radicals”...page 213,365 and 502.

[Bronzy]

Minorities, women and children hardest hit by government cuts./s

[Lizavetta]

Meanwhile, no hits in funding to illegal aliens or foreign terrorist nations.

[Gene Eric]

Now imagine your health care tied to this autocratic regime!

[LucyT]

NIH Stops Therapy Dogs From Visiting Sick Children

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[MissMagnolia]

We don’t have to ‘imagine’ ... it IS.

[combat_boots]

Barry, Harry, and Jarrey

[onyx]

Evil heathens.

[Vendome]

They arrested vets?

[combat_boots]

This is just WRONG. They’re little kids.

[1010RD]

Great news. Send this and photos to all your mushy middle friends, put it on FB, twitter it.

Obama is cutting his own throat and he’ll bleed Democrats.

[Slings and Arrows]

[Jane Long]

LOL...that needs to be left at all of the closed parks and a pic taken. Like Flat Stanley...Flat 0.

[GeronL]

The House passed bills to fund NIH but the MSM doing stories about sick dying kids not getting treatment because of mean old Ted Cruz never bothered to mention that factoid/

[Slings and Arrows]

I cribbed it from http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3075642/posts , and I’ve been doing my best to spread it ever since.

[potlatch]

Therapy dogs bring joy to sick children and to the very old in resthomes. Obama is the opposite........

[bgill]

Makes no sense that dogs already approved can't visit. Must be trickle down Stompy Feet Syndrome.

[goldi]

He’s certainly not presidential. He’s an embarrassment to this country. A petty, nasty little man. I’ve never before seen a president who acts like him. Not ready for prime time by a long shot. He reminds me of a petty, vindictive public school principal.

And I still would like to know where he comes from.

[machogirl]

first president to make WAR ON AMERICA

[5th MEB]

Nope, made perfect sense to me.
Most of these dogs are in private hands any way; seems to me that the cities, counties, or state could handle this program a lot better and more efficiently in any case.