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PAGE 6 PRESS-REPUBLICAN LIFESTYLES MQNPAY, NOVEMBER 13; W5 Day care AP Photos Terri Boyle watches over her charges (photo right) at DoggieDaycare in Williston, Vt. Pet owners drop their furry friends off in the morning and pick them up after work. Henry* a one-year-old Lab (photo left), carries his lunch box to day care. Cubbie holes (photo below) hold the lunches and leashes that dogs bring with them each day. Vermont business offers care, parties and fun for dogs Catering to canines a lot like caring for active children By SUSAN ALLEN Associated Press Writer WILLISTON, Vt. (AP) - One-year-old Henry \arrives at day care each morning carrying his Batman Forever lunch box in his mouth. There's plenty of room for an active youngster to run. He may learn to sit and stay. And when his birthday rolls around, Henry's cake — a blend of Milk Bones and cottage cheese — will be served to Henry's gang, decked out in party hats, who'll dive in snout-first. It's just another day at Dog- gieDaycare, where harried working dog owners shell out $50 a week for the peace of mind that theirs are among the most pampered canines in the state. Dogs not bored \My dog is my other kid,\ said Aida Reed of Burlington, dropp- ing off Simba, her 4-year-old border collie. Simba pauses briefly by the front desk for a quick pat before scooting off alone to find his friends out back. \I don't know what he would do at home all day,\ said Reed, who leaves Simba at the center three days a week on her way to work. He'll have fun at day care, she said. And, she confessed, \Sometimes on a rainy morning I don't feel like taking him for a walk.\ Simba, Henry and the 30 to 40 other DoggieDaycare wards will be walked. They'll chase balls, run through barrels, climb on agility equipment and wrestle. If the dogs get tired, they nap. If they're bad, they get a timeout. On Fridays they wear ban- danas, just for fun. On Tuesday, flea-check day, they get a decora- tive ribbon on their collars. To celebrate Halloween, the gang dressed up. Norm the Rott- weiler, dressed as a devil, won \the most appropriate costume\ award. Little Scout came as Rat- dog in a little red cape. The Great Dane was a pumpkin. Of course, people laugh when they first hear of day care for dogs, said DoggieDaycare owner Pat Clark, her sweatshirt al- ready covered in muddy foot- prints by 10 a.m. But, she said, they are quickly converted when they learn the benefits of giving their beloved dogs a day of exercise and socializing with \friends.\ \It's a lot like kids in day care,\ said Clark. One wall is lined with little cubbies containing each dog's special something — a ted- dy bear, lunch boxes, special leashes. \They bring treats, their own beds, anything that will make them more comfortable,\ Clark said. Chocolate labs like Henry spend the day romping with Akitas. Terriers like Jack will run with German shepherds. Poodles will roughhouse with setters. Two little puppies don't like the ruckus and watch the rif- fraff through a wire fence. One quiet room contains dogs who prefer to be kenneled. The customer rules. \This was something I really wanted to do,\ said Clark, who managed the Burlington Humane Society for three years before • launching DoggieDaycare and who brings her own four dogs to the center each day. One pack of dogs runs in an open area inside the huge con- crete building.- A colorful mural of dogs at play — complete with a giant red fire hydrant — deco- rates the walls; an enormous ga- rage door, with the opening fenc- ed, opens to let in fresh air on a rainy day. Outside, another gang runs loose but supervised in a play yard. Three staffers throw balls or Frisbees, dogs play on climb- ing apparatus and other playground equipment. And there are brief, romantic doggie encounters taking place in the midst of the hubbub. Clark knows all her wards by name — although she often isn't as sure about the owners' names — and personalities. Some, she said, are troublemakers. Others are shy. And like all day cares, the first day can be hard on both the dogs and the owners, she said. \The new ones come in ... sometimes you forget how scary it is. They get here and think something terrible is going to happen,\ she said of the dogs. But play reigns. Or training, if that's what the owner wants. Or bathing and grooming. \They are exhausted when they go home,\ Clark said. And that can be a huge relief to owners who come home at the end of the day just as tired and prefer quiet time with their pets to walking a jittery, house-bound dog. \People laugh when they start to think about\ day care for dogs, Clark said. 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Dcfaycttc owner • operator \We're happy to talk about anybody's spirituality and what makes life worthwhile to them.\ Staff Photo/Mary Thill John Fraser (left) and Allen Gilmore, co-directors and pastoral counselors at the Samaritan Family Counseling Center in Keene. Counseling center may use spiritual values in therapy By MARY THILL Staff Writer Sara-Placid Bureau KEENE — Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was not a religious person. \His feeling was religion was one of the causes of the problem,\ said R.J. Ross of the Samaritan Institute, a net- work of 83 family counseling centers worldwide. The Samaritan centers offer marriage, family, group and individual counseling with an extra component. \We're happy to talk about anybody's spirituality and what makes life worthwhile to them,\ said Allen Gilmore, co-director of the Samaritan Family Counseling Center in Keene. \We'd like to help people get back into the workplace and into some larger sense of meaning and purpose in whatever they do,\ Gilmore said. Most Freud-trained psychotherapists leave spiritual issues to the priest. The Samaritan Center in Keene leaves them to the indi- vidual: If people do not wish to incorporate faith into their treatment, that's OK too. Primarily, therapists help clients bring religious sen- sibilities based in Judeo- Christian faith into their treatment. But Keene co- director John Fraser said some of the counselors there are well-versed in eastern philosophies, Native American beliefs and other values. The non-profit agency began in 1980 as an outreach ministry of the Keene Valley Congregational Church, where Fraser and Gilmore are clergy. No public funding is involved. It's unique in that it offers both a psychiatrist as a medi- cal consultant and three ther- apists who hold membership in the American Association of Pastoral Counselors, among other professional associa- tions. The Samaritan- Family Counseling Center has been successful while keeping its fees 20 percent lower than most agencies — partly because of the center's philos- ophy that counseling should be affordable and partly because it does not treat the seriously ill who need hospi- talization. The center can take Medicare but not Medicaid. \We fill the niche of outpa- tient psychotherapy for people who aren't seriously psychiatrically ill and who can afford to pay something,\ Gilmore said. With offices in Saranac Lake and Lake Placid too, the center draws clients from as far away as Plattsburgh, Long Lake and Potsdam. The spiritual component of its therapy is part of the reason. But mainly, Gilmore said, they come for experien- tial therapy, where counselors help people see their dilem- mas more clearly through ac- ting out difficult situations. As the environment of • health-care changes, Ross said, the Samaritan Center wants to stay viable and af- fordable. Managed care focuses on getting people to the point where they can func- tion at their jobs again, he said. But the Samaritan Centers work for meaningful living above that point. As provider groups are be- ing formed, the Samaritan Center would like to stay in- cluded, Gilmore said. To position itself better for the future, the Samaritan Center is looking for com- munity leaders to join its board and shepherd the organization for the long-term. Gilmore said the organiza- tion is also trying to collect more donations for the \Helping Hands Fund,\ which allows Samaritan to offer a sliding scale on its average $65-per-session fee. 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