Bogglelicious

07/30/2022

Hello from Shnacky, Sprinkles and Dairy Lee and our foster mummy Kate/Katherine … Katherine Ruffel needs your support for Rescue Kittens Need Relocation Help

08/12/2017

Sandi Thomas

SANTA ROSA BEACH

Please help spread the word and let's get this senior home.

Katherine Ruffel April Smith Madr

02/23/2017

Meet my foster puppies.

01/11/2017

Great way to start the New Year! Boggles visits and Judy playing the piano go 'hand in hand." Maybe that should say, "Paw and Hand." Animals and Music fill the place with Joy.

09/12/2016

George is feeling in da hood

Love this sweet boy

06/20/2016

Sweet Prince George. It's a pleasure to have you with us and you bring smiles all around.

We love you George.

06/17/2016

I'm so happy this morning!

I'm PET OF THE DAY for NW Florida Daily News.

This makes my mommy and I so pleased because it helps us raise awareness of the goodness Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) and Animal Assisted Activities (AAT) make in our community; children, elderly and all love ones. I and my mom completed our training through Therapy Patient Connections (an affiliate of Intermountain Therapy Animals).

My mom and I are regular Animal Therapy volunteers at Brookdale Destin (East Mack Bayou, SRB) and also reach out to those who may require our companionship during hospice care.

If you would like to know more about what my mom and I do or would like to explore training for yourself and your fur companion, please inbox my me and my mom will reply.

Please keep spreading the good of what this non-medicinal, free therapy, can do to alleviate (just to name a few);

1. AAT can effectively reduce the loneliness of residents in long-term care (Banks, 2002)
2. Medication costs dropped from an average of $3.80 per patient per day to just $1.18 per patient per day in new nursing home facilities in New York, Missouri, and Texas that have animals and plants as an integral part of the environment (Montague, 1995)
3. Pets in nursing homes increase social and verbal interactions adjunct to other therapy (Pick, 1992)
4. The presence of a dog during a child's physical examination decreases the child's stress (Nadgengast, 1997, Baun, 1998)
5. Children with autism who spend time around pets have more prosocial behaviors and less autistic behaviors such as self-absorption (Redefer, 1989).
6. Researchers discovered that a 12-minute visit with man's best friend helped heart and lung function by lowering pressures, diminishing release of harmful hormones and decreasing anxiety among hospitalized heart failure patients. Benefits exceeded those that resulted from a visit with a human volunteer or from being left alone.
7. A 2002 study by Karen Allen, PhD, a researcher at the State University of New York at Buffalo, showed that the presence of a dog lowered the blood pressure of children reading aloud.
8. Researcher, Aaron Katcher, notes that the presence of an animal can contribute to a therapeutic environment by drawing attention outward; turning off anxiety, anger, and depression; creating a zone of safety and intimacy; and increasing positive expectations of both self and others.

PLEASE KEEP SHARING AND ASKING YOUR FRIENDS TO LIKE MY PAGE SO WE, TOGETHER, CAN REACH OUT TO THOSE IN NEED.

Lots of Love
Boggles
xo xo xo

04/22/2016

THE WOOD KITTENS in my care for H.E.A.R.T Animal Rescue

These 3 darlings are doing super and will be ready for their furever purrrfect homes in approx. 9 weeks.

They are part of the Bogglelicious family until that time.

If you're interested in adopting and/or finding out more, please inbox me.

04/18/2016

I completed an in depth Pet First Aid course on Saturday. I hope much of what I learnt will not be needed, however, I feel confident in my ability to handle pet first aid should the need present itself.

03/27/2016

Boggles the Blue Crab Dog sporting her Bogglelicious Easter Outfit. $28 (hand jazzled dress with hand made Easter Bonnet)

03/24/2016

GEORGE HAS THE WIND IN HIS EARS