Skeezer - Dog with a Mission Author:Elizabeth Yates The child looked like a little shapeless woman when her parents brought her in. There were deep circles under her vague staring eyes. And she had lost the power to speak. Then Skeezer came in and looked at the new patient with her big, bright eyes. Soon the child was cautiously returning Skeezer's gaze. Then in no time, tiny arms reached ar... more »ound the dog, and whispered confidences poured into her ear - confidences that the child knew would never be broken. Skeezer lived and worked in the children's psychiatric hospital at the University of Michigan Medical Center. This is her story - the warm, poignant story of a carefully trained canine co-therapist who reaches troubled children when human therapists can't.« less