BYÂ CATHERINE THORBECKE
A therapy kangaroo is bringing hope to retired servicemen while hopping around a home for veterans in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Charlie the kangaroo has been working at the William E. Christoffersen Salt Lake Veterans Home since March 2015, Noralyn Kahn, an administrator at the home, told ABC News. “His job is just to love them,” Kahn, who also owns Charlie, said. “They can hold him and give him a bottle, or he will go and jump around and make everybody smile.”
“It’s been proven that therapy animals lower blood pressure, and they lessen the need for a lot of anti-depressants because they just uplift everybody. For those residents who sometimes seem like they are not there with us, we can put an animal in their arms and it is just the most amazing thing,” Kahn said, “They just love Charlie.”
Charlie will be recognized for his achievements next month when he is honored as the American Red Cross’ “Animal Hero of the Year,” Rich Woodruff, communications director for the Utah region of the American Red Cross, told ABC News.
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This is pretty amazing in a lot of ways for me. First of all, the idea of service Kangaroo is pretty amazing, and yeah, I can see how having one around in a Vets home would improve life for everybody by a factor of, oh, a million. I’m happy for the residents and staff, but you know, I’m equally sad that nobody at most places thinks of things like this. The administrator has to be very, very cool which is…different. It’s intriguing that while most Americans have a kind of weird idea about Utah that there’s a lot of interesting, counter-cultural and just plain old imaginative “damn, that’s…well, what is that thing? Damn?” Slainte!
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