It’s a two-way street of affection, comfort and unconditional love between a pet parent and their therapy pup.
Charlie Lloyd wasn’t sure he was ready for another dog so soon after Lucky died. The retired counselor at Rancho San Antonio Boys Home in Chatsworth thought maybe they should wait a while, but his wife, Dottie, wanted to mend this hole in their hearts as soon as possible.
If Lucky had had a brother, it would have been Hank, another Jack Russell terrier. There was only one minor thing they had to change, his name. Neither of them liked Hank. When they got him home, they began going through the alphabet thinking of names. They never made it past D. Therapy dog, “Dr. Timmy,” and handler Charlie Lloyd, 81, greet Lorenzo Gabriel in the acute rehab clinic at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, CA, Thursday, April 27, 2023. “Dr. Timmy” and his handler Charlie Lloyd, 81, are back in service offering therapy to patients after a long absence due to COVID-19 restrictions.
It was just the two of them after she died, Charlie and Danny, inseparable. Dottie knew her time was short, and didn’t want to leave her husband of 30 years alone in an empty house. If patients weren’t too sick, he’d hop up on their bed and give them five minutes of the strongest medicine he could prescribe — a big dose of TLC.
He decided it was the worst and named him Timmy after a nephew. Timmy didn’t take to therapy training as well as Danny Boy, but he graduated and was ready when the call came from Holy Cross that pandemic restrictions were being eased.
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