Ocupation: Professor
Life: b. August 29, 1947
Birthday: August 29
Basically when it comes to autistic kids and animals there's kind of three ways that they work, some of them are instant best buddies, they understand a cat, they understand a dog - they're best studies with it, they just know how to communicate with it. Then there's other kids that begin with a little bit of fear of the cat or the dog, but then they begin to like it and then there are other kids where you have a sensory problem - the cat meows and it hurts their ears, so they want to stay away from the cat because you never know when he might meow.
source: Interview with Jenny Dean, www.floppycats.com. May 23, 2012.
topic: Dog, Hurt, Cat, Best Buddies, Three Ways