REPORTAGE – An English setter has been present for a few months in the Paris center for the fight against cancer, where he is learning his job as a mediation dog.
Like his colleagues, he wears a name badge and even has an email address (1). But instead of a blouse, he wears a harness, which indicates: « Do not touch without permission ». Not that the Institut Curie fears that its new collaborator will bite. « It’s a matter of hygiene, so we can warn patients to wash their hands before and after petting him. », explains Isabelle Fromantin, nurse and head of the wound and healing research unit at the Institut Curie (Paris), at the origin of the reception of Snoopy. Isabelle Fromantin had already piloted the KDog study, which showed that dogs were able to detect breast cancer.
Arriving in mid-December, Snoopy is a young English setter. His career plan: to become a mediation dog, to meet patients treated in the Parisian hospital dedicated to cancer. ” It’s about bringing a little lightness and happiness in an anxiety-provoking place », Details Isabelle Fromantin…
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