商品簡介
Encounters with Rikki is about an eight-week-old puppy surviving Hurricane Katrina and miraculously finding her calling as a therapy animal. With her new owners, Chuck and Patty Mitchell, Rikki helps children learn to read, assists a man with multiple personality disorder and gives one little girl the courage she needs to testify against the man who raped her.
This narrative nonfiction book explores the human-animal bond through Rikki's influence on her owners and the people they visit: people who are dying, accident victims with brain injuries, and those committed by law to a psychiatric hospital. Chuck and Rikki's improbable partnership is one of loyalty and affection, leading Chuck on a mission to help child victims testify by having a dog at their side. It's as much a story about the dog as it is about the possibilities that she has inspired, including changing the judicial system in Florida.
