Do they have a dog at the Nursing home? I think that would be neat for the patients to have a dog for company. Our local Hospice House has a Hospice Dog now and I got to see&meet it several wks ago when I was there visiting a frd of my Moms. It was such a nice dog looking to have some shepard in it with the way its ears stood up, maybe a shepard&lab mix because it was solid black in color.