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From the author of the critically acclaimed bestseller, Aroma of the Missing, comes a heartwarming and inspiring story that presents how puppies can be rescued and can rescue in return. On her behalf first booklet, Susannah Charleson was praised for her unique insight in to the kinship between humans and puppies, as uncovered through canine search and recovery. In The Opportunity Pups Charleson chronicles her trip in to the world of psychiatric-service and therapy puppies trained to provide the human mind, a trip that began as an individual one. After a particularly grisly search resulted in a struggle with PTSD, Charleson credits treating to her partnership with search dog Puzzle. Encouraged by that experience and having attained dogs officially trained to assist in such crises, Charleson learns to identify left behind puppies with service potential, often plucking them from shelters at the last minute, and to coach them for work beside harming lovers, to whom these second-chance pet dogs bring intellect, comfort, and anticipation. From black Lab puppy dog Merlin, once cast away in a garbage carrier, who stabilizes his partner's panic attacks to Ollie, the blind and deaf terrier who soothes anxious children, to Jake Piper, the starving pit bull mix who moves from left behind to irreplaceable, The Opportunity Pups illuminates a complete " new world " of canine potential.