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Haggard, Ann. “A Patients Best Friend.” American Journal of Nursing. 85.12 (1985): 1374-1376. JSTOR. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 24 February 2007. .
This article was about the positive effects that pet therapy has on hospital patients. For example, it has been proven that pets have a measurable effect on the physiological function of a patient. Their blood pressure, heart rate, and respirations were significantly lower when greeted by a dog. Oddly enough, all of those physiological functions are effected the opposite way when greeted by a human.
Culliton, Barbara. “Take Two Pets and Call Me in the Morning.” Science, News Series. 237.4822 (1987): 1560-1561. JSTOR. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 24 February 2007. .
This article along with almost every article found on pet therapy also tells about the different benefits of pet therapy. This article tells of different benefits than the previous article, and also talks about “Pets on Wheels” an organization for pet therapy.
Shell, Mark. “The Family Pet.” Representations. 15 (1986): 121-153. JSTOR. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 24 February 2007. .
This article was about pets in general and the effect they have on people. This article had a lot of good information. It says that pets provide companionship and can help children learn gentleness and responsibility. Pets also provide their pet owners with an “excuse” to exercise and a way to meet new people. This article looked at the question “What is it about pets that make them useful and attractive to human beings?”
This article was very interesting to read because it tells about a very common problem that many people run into when writing a research paper. The problem was that Tompkins kept getting conflicting information. She was trying to write an essay on the European-Indian relations in the 17th century, but every source had a different account of what happened. She looked into the information from several different authors, and even after that she was still not comfortable with the information she had gotten.
To solve this problem she decided to piece the information together as best as she could. There were some sources that she knew she couldn’t believe at all, there were others that she could partially believe, and then some that she thought was mostly right. She decided what to use based on what she knew to be reasonably correct, given what she already knew about it.
I think the biggest problem that I am going to run into with my research is deciding which articles give me the best information. Most articles on “pet therapy” give a lot of real life examples, and not a lot of information on the subject itself. I think I am going to have to contact organizations for pet therapy. So I know how to hopefully solve my problem, but it will be time consuming! :)
Connor, Katherine and Julie Miller. “Help from Our Animal Friends.” Nursing Management 31.7 (2000): 42-46. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 11 February 2007. .
This article was a good article because the first part of it gave other names for pet therapy. I know this may seem not important, but when I was having trouble coming up with search words this was very helpful. It was also very helpful, because it gives a lot of good and positive information on pet therapy. It gives a definition on animal-assisted therapy and gives a whole list of its benefits describing them. It also talks about the education that is involved with animal-assisted therapy.
Kaminski, Mary and Teresa Pellino and Joel Wish. “Play and Pets: The Physical and Emotional Impact of Child-Life and Pet Therapy on Hospitalized Children.” Children’s Healthcare 31.4 (2002): 321- 335. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 11 February 2007. .
This article was also a fairly good article. It talked obviously about pet therapy with children in the hospital setting, and the benefits and affects it had on the children. There are some good statistics within this article, and it also talks about “Pet Pals,” which is a canine pet visitation program. This article actually goes through the experiment or test that was done testing what the impact was that pets had on children in the hospital.
Hooker, Shirley and Linda Freeman, and Pamela Stewart. “Pet Therapy Research: A Historical Review.” Holistic Nursing Practices 17.1 (2002): 17-23. Academic Search Premier. EBSCOhost. Helmke lib., Ft. Wayne, IN. 11 February 2007. .
This article gives the history of when pet therapy began which in the United States was in 1919 when Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane suggested using dogs with psych patients at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Washington DC. It also talks about when the actual research for animal assisted therapy began, which was in 1961 by a man named Boris Levinson, a child psychiatrist. This article is all about the history of pet therapy.
Distant and Balanced
While some may think that becoming top dog is as easy as “putting a smile on someone’s face,” I would say being obedient and good with people is more important. Any dog has the capability of putting a smile on someone’s face, however, not all dogs are capable of being a therapy dog. There is a lot of training and testing that a dog must go through, before ever being taken into the public.
Involved, Angry
Being top dog is most certainly not defined by putting a smile on someone’s face. A dog may look cute and innocent, but looks can be deceiving! There are dogs out there that may “look” cute, but the second you go to touch them, they will attack. Some dogs are not raised being touched certain ways and could potentially be a danger to a person. Being “top dog” should be defined by obedience not ever by putting a smile on someone’s face.
Comedic
Comedic is a very hard voice for me to do with pet therapy. In my opinion there is nothing comedic about pet therapy.
For my paper I am most likely going to use the distance and balanced approach. I feel like pet therapy is not an angry topic, and as you can tell from my posting there is nothing comedic about it to me either. I think for this topic a balanced and distant paper would be the most effective.
1. “Putting a smile on someone’s face is all it takes to be top dog.” (Oversimplification- while putting a smile on someone’s face is very important to being a therapy dog, obedience would most definitely be more important.)
I was only able to find one fallacy for the topic of pet therapy. I looked through four new articles, and even went back and looked through my first three just to see if there were any. I think with a topic like pet therapy, there will not be a whole lot of fallacies on a newspaper article database. Most articles written on LexisNexis are personal stories about pet therapy and while some of their personal comments could be considered fallacies, they are just opinions in these articles, because they are not trying to argue the subject, they are simply giving their opinion on the matter.
I really enjoyed reading the Ballenger article for this week. I am currently in a photography class, so it was very interesting to see a connection between photography and English. In the photography class I am taking, we are required to shoot a roll of film every week, and it is very true that your first instinct is to take one shot of each subject you pick out. Through that class alone I have learned to look at different subjects from different angles, so I was able to really relate to this article. The part of the article that stuck out to me the most was on page 29 where he said that “Researchers who never narrow their subjects produce drafts that are a lot like blurry landscape shots. While they manage to cover a lot of territory, the reader never gets a good look at anything.” He goes on to say how the paper will lack detail, and will be hard to figure out what most important about the paper. Reading this article helped me to decide which of my three narrowed topics I will most likely use for my research paper.
