A chocolate lab named Chase is undergoing daily training before she starts officially working at the Akron Children’s Hospital after she turns 1 this summer, according to an article on the Akron Beacon Journal website.
Chase has been coming to the hospital to get used to the typical smells and environment there.
As long as she passes an evaluation after she turns 1, Chase will be part of the hospital’s Doggie Brigade. The nation’s second-oldest hospital dog therapy program, it was created in 1992 and currently has about 60 dogs, with future recruiting hopefully bumping the number up to 70 or 80 dogs.
Most of her life is going to be helping children. But the rest of the time she's have ongoing training for bomb detection.
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