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There\u2019s a Jewish concept that Lori Raineri tries to live by: tikkun olam<\/em>. It means repair the world, do what you can to make it a better place. Lori\u2019s a doer. Type A squared. So even picking out a new puppy at the shelter that day in 2006, she was looking for more than a pet to keep her company.<\/p>\n

The Davis, California, resident is single. No kids. When her two senior dogs died, she couldn\u2019t help but think of how their lives had touched only hers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want a dog that helps other people,\u201d she told a friend who\u2019d come with her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHave you heard about the therapy dogs they use in hospitals?\u201d her friend, who\u2019s a nurse, said. \u201cThey comfort patients. Children especially love them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wonderful. Tikkun olam<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The shelter manager led them to a pen where six puppies, Border-collie mixes, were tumbling about. Except for one. She sat alone in a corner. Lori reached into the pen and lifted her up.<\/p>\n

\u201cHey, baby girl,\u201d she cooed. The pup stiffened. Lori had never seen one so shy.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou might like this other puppy better,\u201d the manager said. \u201cSee how playful he is?\u201d<\/p>\n

Lori looked down at the pup in her arms. She seemed like Lori\u2019s opposite in every way, but there was something about the way her eyes took in everything. \u201cNo, this is the one,\u201d she said. The puppy\u2019s expression reminded Lori of the dog in the Blondie comic strip. \u201cI\u2019m going to call her Daisy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lori threw herself into raising her new dog. She has a small consulting firm that works with public agencies like school boards to issue municipal bonds that fund new buildings and other public infrastructure. She works 70 to 80 hours a week and always has one or two volunteer gigs\u2014coaching youth sports, teaching Sunday school, community work.<\/p>\n

She took Daisy with her everywhere and arranged her schedule to give her blocks of time for bonding and puppy classes. For the first six months, she fed Daisy only out of her hand as a reward for good behavior. The puppy quickly learned that the surest route to a treat was to be calm and patient.<\/p>\n

Lori wondered how well Daisy would do with people in the hospital since she was so reserved around strangers. She was determined to make it work. A friend at synagogue recommended a therapy-dog training school run out of an Episcopal church.<\/p>\n

There Daisy learned how to approach a person in a wheelchair, to ignore food dropped on the floor, not to react when people were yelling, rushing around or behaving erratically. Soon she\u2019d be ready to work in a hospital.<\/p>\n

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One night Lori was talking dogs with a business acquaintance when the woman mentioned a magazine she really liked. \u201cIt\u2019s called Bark,\u201d she said. \u201cYou should check it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not long after that, Lori\u2019s assistant came into her office. \u201cYou should see this,\u201d she said. \u201cIt came in the mail.\u201d She held up a copy of Bark.<\/p>\n

Lori couldn\u2019t resist glancing through it. Her eyes landed on a story about how therapy dogs were used in a courthouse in Seattle to help comfort crime victims. How amazing!<\/p>\n

She contacted the district attorney, Jeff Reisig, one of the few local officials she\u2019d never met. \u201cI read an article about dogs working in courthouses,\u201d she told him. \u201cI have a dog trained to do therapy, and I think we should have this in our county.\u201d<\/p>\n

Long silence. \u201cFunny, I\u2019m just now reading an article about courthouse dogs in my prosecutors\u2019 association magazine,\u201d he said. \u201cCan we meet?\u201d<\/p>\n

A few days later, Jeff ushered Lori and her dog into his office. \u201cI\u2019m interested in Daisy working with children, victims of sexual assault,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m guessing that would only be an occasional thing,\u201d Lori said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d Jeff said. \u201cSadly, we see children every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The enormity of what he\u2019d said hit her. This was serious. Daisy had been training to work with hospital patients. What if she wasn\u2019t ready for this?<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u2019s go and meet everyone,\u201d Jeff said. He led them to another building. \u201cThis is our Multi-Disciplinary Interview Center,\u201d he said. \u201cSexual assault victims go through in-depth interviews here. They also come for therapy sessions and other meetings.\u201d The name sounded familiar. Then Lori remembered. She\u2019d helped arrange the building\u2019s financing.<\/p>\n

There were several people waiting in the spacious lobby. Jeff and Lori went over to a cozy array of couches, where he introduced her to Cameron Handley, the director of the MDIC.<\/p>\n

Daisy lay calmly at Lori\u2019s feet, observing everything around her. Lori explained how the dog was trained not to react even in stressful situations. \u201cShe\u2019s been around children a lot at my synagogue.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cameron nodded. \u201cWe\u2019d see this as being a kind of pilot program,\u201d she said. \u201cA lot of our children are very fearful. It will be important that Daisy not do anything that might frighten them.\u201d<\/p>\n

A woman and a young girl came into the lobby. Even from across the room, Lori could see that the girl was nervous, her steps tentative, her head down. Then she looked up and saw Daisy.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWould you like to meet my dog?\u201d Lori asked. The girl nodded.<\/p>\n

\u201cHer name\u2019s Daisy,\u201d Lori said. \u201cShe shakes hands.\u201d Daisy extended a paw and the girl shook it. Lori showed the girl how to get Daisy to do more tricks.<\/p>\n

Then another child came in with her parents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWould you like to meet Daisy?\u201d Lori asked, moving closer.<\/p>\n

\u201cNo,\u201d the child said, stepping back.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like Daisy,\u201d the first girl said. Unprompted, Daisy returned to her, lay down and rested her head atop the girl\u2019s foot.<\/p>\n

Lori looked at Cameron, whose eyes were fixed on the scene unfolding in front of them. In the space of a few minutes, they had witnessed the possibility of what Daisy could offer along with evidence that she wasn\u2019t for everyone. The children would decide if they wanted Daisy\u2019s company.<\/p>\n

Soon Daisy was on the job. The DA\u2019s office had planned to spend several weeks acclimating her to the center and its investigators and therapists before putting her to work. But shortly after she began, an eight-year-old boy came in for an interview and refused to be separated from his aunt, who had brought him.<\/p>\n

Children are only allowed to be interviewed alone. The boy clung to his aunt with one hand; with the other, he petted Daisy. The investigator decided to bring Daisy into the interview room. The boy agreed to go without his aunt. Daisy spent the entire time leaning against the boy\u2019s leg, comforting him as if she\u2019d been doing it for years, while he described his experience.<\/p>\n

Each morning, Cameron would pick Daisy up at Lori\u2019s house. Lori would tell Daisy where she was going the moment they awoke. The dog sprang from her bed fully alert, as if she was saying, \u201cI\u2019m ready to work.\u201d One night, when Cameron brought Daisy back home, she said, \u201cI want to tell you how great Daisy was today. There was a girl who\u2014\u201d<\/p>\n

READ MORE: DOGS IN THE OFFICE — MORE HELP THAN YOU’D THINK<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Lori stopped her. \u201cI\u2019m sorry,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s too hard for me to hear about what these children have gone through. But I\u2019m glad Daisy can be there for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

In time there was no way for Lori to avoid hearing about what her dog was doing. There were stories in the newspaper. Lori and Daisy made appearances at community events to raise awareness. People would come up to them at the mall and tell Lori they knew Daisy, what she meant to them.<\/p>\n

She couldn\u2019t help but be moved by the stories she heard. Like the two siblings who were so traumatized that they couldn\u2019t sit for an interview or therapy. They\u2019d cry and scream uncontrollably. Until they met Daisy. They\u2019d pet her and give her treats, and she loved them back. Slowly, they opened up.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not only children that Daisy comforts. One day a man whose child had been assaulted brought the child to the center. The man was extremely upset. This time Daisy stayed with the father in the lobby. He sat and stroked her, settling down some. Then he stretched out on the couch. By the time the interviewer returned with the child, the man was asleep, Daisy right next to him.<\/p>\n

The investigators all spend time with Daisy. She comforts them as much as she does the children. She\u2019s become an indispensable part of the center\u2019s work. Lori had her trainer customize Daisy\u2019s lessons to focus on children, teaching her to lay her head in the lap of someone feeling stress.<\/p>\n

READ MORE: A DOG’S NOSE KNOWS HOW TO SNIFF OUT DISEASE<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Not to move away if a child is crying or trembling. But really, Lori believes that Daisy, with her cautious, observant nature, was made for working with abused children. Daisy senses their boundaries and their need for the comfort and affection only a loving dog can give.<\/p>\n

For several years, the two of them visited the hospital on weekends. That\u2019s when Lori got to see Daisy in action with patients. They perfected a skit in which Daisy answered questions and did impressions. \u201cIf we go to Lake Tahoe, what might we see?\u201d Lori would ask. Daisy would stand up on her hind legs. \u201cThat\u2019s right, a bear,\u201d Lori would say. \u201cWhat does Lady Gaga do?\u201d Daisy would sing. And everyone would laugh.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been eight years now since Daisy began working as a therapy dog. She\u2019s touched the lives of thousands of people in ways Lori could never have imagined. Looking back, Lori says there was a reason she was drawn to the puppy whose first instinct wasn\u2019t to play with the others but to try to figure out what she was supposed to do.<\/p>\n

Lori and Daisy have figured it out together. Daisy is a gift to everyone she meets. And a reminder to Lori that the world is being looked after\u2014and made better\u2014by someone way busier and, of course, far wiser, than even she is.<\/p>\n

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