ABSTRACT
It is curious how I began to be interested in the effects that animals, specifically dogs, can have on people. I was 19 years old at the time, scheduled to take the competency test needed to obtain my credentials to do canine assisted search and rescue work in the mountains. One afternoon, however, I started feeling dizzy and seeing double. Two weeks later I got the diagnosis: I had multiple sclerosis. This diagnosis nullified the possibility of entering the rescue association, so I found myself without a future and with a disease that I knew little about.
