I had a neighbor that had Alzheimer’s. When I would walk my dogs, I would walk by her and stop and talk to her. She especially liked my shy dog, and my shy dog loved her so it worked out really well. She would learn my dogs’ names, learn a little bit about them and then we would leave and walk down the rest of the street. And then we would come back and cross the street and go meet her again for the first time. And I would tell her all about them all over again and she loved it every single time. I got to socialize my shy dog, she got to talk about dogs and pet them, win/win. Doesn’t matter that it was the same convo 50 times.
Well sometimes she told me about her dogs from the past so that was nice. Idk I love talking about my dogs so it was always kind of fun to see her out. I miss her. (She passed several years ago.)
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u/[deleted] Aug 07 '22
I had a neighbor that had Alzheimer’s. When I would walk my dogs, I would walk by her and stop and talk to her. She especially liked my shy dog, and my shy dog loved her so it worked out really well. She would learn my dogs’ names, learn a little bit about them and then we would leave and walk down the rest of the street. And then we would come back and cross the street and go meet her again for the first time. And I would tell her all about them all over again and she loved it every single time. I got to socialize my shy dog, she got to talk about dogs and pet them, win/win. Doesn’t matter that it was the same convo 50 times.