Dogs and other animals in our service

A fellow Orthodox Christian blogger writes about service dogs and her life with the one she recently acquired. Here is her page on service dogs. Click on: http://turtlemom3.wordpress.com/service-dogs/ And here is her blog which describes her life with a service dog: http://livingwiththewoof.wordpress.com/

Many of the saints interacted with animals in mutually supportive ways. At times God directed animals to serve saints, such as bringing food to them. Here is a post, Saints and Animals on SAFCEI by an Orthodox Christian, Stephen Hayes, on the subject, with a list of references at the end: http://safcei.blogspot.com/2008/06/saints-and-animals.html

Here is a brief description of the book, Animals & Man: A State of Blessedness by Joanne Stefanatos, from the Holy Cross Bookstore: http://store.holycrossbookstore.com/anandmastofb.html

Finally here is another story about service dogs from AssociatedContent.Com:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/383056/seven_amazing_famous_service_dogs.html

Reprinted from October 2008