Mac, the University of the Fraser Valley’s popular “canine counsellor,” has retired at the age of 105 — in dog years.
After 13 years, Mac the golden retriever will no longer wear the blue-and-yellow vest that identified him as a working dog.
“He’s a trailblazer — or maybe we should say a tail-blazer,” said his owner Dawn Holt, a clinical counsellor who works in UFV’s counselling department. “I think some of those firsts are due to him doing it for so long.” PADS trainers noticed this trait when Mac was young and began to train him as a therapy dog. A volunteer with PADS at the time, Holt began her career as a clinical counsellor at the same time Mac did. The two have always been partners, working in hospice, at UFV and in private practice.
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