Deaf Therapy Dog Provides Comfort for Patients in Their Most Trying Times

Beethoven is a deaf 7-year-old, 100-pound mix of American Bulldog, Shar-Pei, Alaskan Malamute, Bullmastiff, and Terrier. Despite his disability, he never lets his deafness get in the way of providing relief for patients who are in the direst situations.

Some of the patients Beethoven has taken care of is a teenage boy with Huntington’s disease. He couldn’t move any part of his body but a single finger. Yet, the boy’s eyes lit up when he held Beethoven’s leash a month before he died in hospice care.

We owe Beethoven’s dedication as a therapy dog to his handler, Cynthia “Shanon” Zeisloft, a Muscogee County Sheriff’s Deputy. She is better known as Lt. Z or just Z.

Source: AJC

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