Dog’s Absence Upsets Young Patient

Grey River Argus, 10 May 1948, Page 5

Dog’s Absence Upsets Young Patient

WELLINGTON, May 8. Andrew,, a black Scottish terrier., which yesterday caused widespread anxiety’by playing truant from the bedside? of his six-year-old master, a poliomyelitis patient in the Duncan Hospital at Silverstream, has returned to duty. Ever since the boy passed the infectious stage of the disease, the dog, until yesterday afternoon, when he. disappeared, had not left his bedside for more than half an hour. The patient became so upset at the dog’s absence that it was his recovery would be affected. Am anneal was broadcast, newspaper publicity given, and the neighbourhood searched bv the hospital staff. The dog was located at Silverstream. this morning by a man, who immediatelv telephoned the hospital. Andrew, on being returned to the hos-. pita? after eighteen hours’ truancy, immediately rushed to the bedside to. delight the patient.