Petey is a one year old Staffordshire Terrier. He has a wonderful owner who trained and socialized him to be an excellent companion dog. Petey visits nursing homes and has changed the lives of just about everyone he meets. Petey’s owner contacted me because during one of their recent visits to a nursing home he was attacked by another Therapy Dog. I would love to learn how that particular dog became certified in the first place! Petey started responding in a fearfully aggressively manner to any dog that resembled the female German Shepherd that attacked him. Luckily for Petey I have a close friend named Jackie that breeds German Shepherds. All of her dogs are reliable and friendly. We took Petey to the park with one of Jackie’s older puppies. An eleven month old female named Jenga. After ten minutes of me dilgently redirecting his extremely fearful behavior, Petey relaxed and started to solicit play with Jenga! His owner was quite relieved to see that Petey still had the ability to recover from his traumatic experience. Now twice a week for three weeks we will be meeting several different German Shepherds owned by Jackie in neutral locations to facilitate Petey’s complete recover. Petey will be visiting people in need very soon once again!!!!