Good Golly Miss Molly.
You Sure Like To Share The Love.
W –by Anna Cooke We have met a cornucopia of dogs over our six-plus years
of publishing The New Barker. All of them are special in their own way. But, once in awhile a dog comes along that stands out among them all, for whatever inexplicable reason. We met Molly last year at the TradeWinds Island Grand
Resort on St. Pete Beach during the first annual Pawject Runway we co-hosted. She had been selected with nine other dogs to compete in the fashion show. Molly and her human, Carol Mason had come all the way from Orlando to participate, after having read about the event in The New Barker. While Molly did not win the contest, she continued to remain in my thoughts. Months later, I realized that Molly’s face kept regularly popping into my head.I wanted to get to know a lit- tle more about her, and what made her so special.What was it about this little dog that made her so unforgettable? Molly is a Shih Tzu who was born on April 23, 2009 to
Misty’s Dream and Cajun Rajun in Port Orange, Florida. Her official AKC name is Molly Jo IX. When Carol was house- breaking Molly to go outside, the dog would grab her puppy pad and take it with
her.To this day, Molly refuses to go outside when it’s wet out. Soon, Molly became more and more socialized as she
Clockwise Top: Molly walks into to ORMC. Molly with ORMC patient Janet, whose eyes lit up when Molly entered her room.
Molly and Carol brighten up the staff’s day too. Jennifer Mauldin,RN, Nicole Porcaro, RN and Jamila Nghiri,RN. Kim Moore takes a moment to receive Molly Muzzles.
A special thank you to Sabrina Childress, M.S. for facilitating the tour throughout ORMC. Photography by Anna Cooke.
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went everywhere with
Carol.They joined the Obedience Club of Daytona, and on June 15, 2010, Molly passed Basic Obedience. Carol insists that she did more work than Molly during those classes. A few weeks later, Molly received her Canine Good Citizen certificate and on December 21, 2010 she passed Intermediate
Obedience.Not one to rest on her lau- rels, Molly soldiered on until on May 23, 2011, the day she achieved the coveted title of AKC Therapy Dog. She’d found her
calling.That same sweet look in Molly’s eyes and her spir- ited demeanor that we were so smitten with, have served her well as a volunteer therapy dog at Orlando Regional Medical Center (ORMC).As a team, Carol and Molly visit the hospital every Monday
afternoon.This past April, Molly received a spe- cial pin recognizing her 100 hours of volunteer work at ORMC. Patients and staff alike enjoy interacting with Molly and
the other therapy dogs.Each dog has their own calling card that says,“You have been visited by an Orlando Health Pet Therapy Team.Wishing you a “fur”iously fast recovery.” Handlers are the most important component of the Pet Therapy Team, and that was none the more evident with Carol. Equipped with hand sanitizer, she made certain everyone who came in contact with Molly at the hospital used it.
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