Pat a pet a day to keep autism at bay

That's wonderful. When I was a kid, we lived in a small house and pets were not exactly encouraged. It was very much later in my life that I could keep pets. I have been reading quite a lot of news about dogs being used as therapy in hospitals. There are even some prisons which use dogs to rehabilitate the inmates.

I look forward to the day when cats and dogs taken into animal shelters do not have to be put down but instead are put to good use helping people.