scenes of disabled people improvising she'd observed while traveling in Pakistan and India and Turkey | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net A radio show about animals & animal issues Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:26:24 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://i0.wp.com/talkinganimals.net/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/cropped-talking-animals-favicon.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 scenes of disabled people improvising she'd observed while traveling in Pakistan and India and Turkey | Talking Animals https://talkinganimals.net 32 32 142518242 Dr. Bonita Bergin, inventor of concept of the service dog https://talkinganimals.net/2026/02/dr-bonita-bergin-inventor-of-concept-of-the-service-dog/ https://talkinganimals.net/2026/02/dr-bonita-bergin-inventor-of-concept-of-the-service-dog/#respond Wed, 25 Feb 2026 17:10:17 +0000 https://talkinganimals.net/?p=12311 Dr. Bonita Bergin, who, in 1975, invented the concept of the service dog to assist people with mobility limitations—then launched Canine Companions for Independence, later founded the Assistance Dog Institute, now called the Bergin College of Canine Studies–recalls the scenes of disabled people improvising she’d observed while traveling in Pakistan, India, Turkey, and other countries […]

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