POST FALLS, Idaho — One of the most loved and hardest-working employees at the Idaho State Veterans Home Post Falls is also the smallest, the cutest and the fluffiest.
Flash is his name, and brightening everyone's day is his game.
“He comes and visits me and he gives me kisses,” Idaho State Veterans Home Post Falls resident Mary Sears said Thursday as she smoothed her hands over the 10-year-old Pomeranian Shih Tzu's coat and scratched his chin.
"He’s wonderful," she said.
In his star-spangled doggie bandana, with a sparkle in his eyes and pink tongue hanging out, the lap-sized therapy dog is often the center of attention at the veterans home. Activities assistant Shelley Holloway has worked at the veterans home since August, but she and Flash have been volunteers since the doors opened in 2022.
Flash was a rescue dog when Holloway adopted him as a puppy. Therapy dog training began when he was 4 months old, and Flash was a natural.
"He’s the type of dog that just makes it,” Holloway said. “I give him all the credit. He somehow knows what he’s doing.”
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