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In late adolescence, Pransky was bored: she needed a job. and so Sue Halpern decided to give herself and her underoccupied Labradoodle a new leasher, leaseon life by getting the two of them certified as a therapy-dog team. Pransky proved to be not only a terrific therapist, smart and instinctively compassionate, but an unerring moral compass as well. In the unlikely-sounding arena of a public nursing home, she led her teammate into a series of encounters with the residents that revealed depths of warmth, humor, and insight Halpern hadnt expected. Little by little, their adventures expanded and illuminated Halperns sense of what goodness is and doeshow acts of kindness transform the giver as well as the given-to.

Funny, moving, and profound, is the story of how one virtuousthat is to say, faithful, charitable, loving, and sometimes prudentmutt showed great hope, fortitude, and restraint (the occasional begged or stolen treat notwithstanding) as she taught a well-meaning woman the essence and pleasures of the good life.