Claire is a miniature black poodle that weighs about 14 pounds and wears a very stylish brown sweater with a striped stocking cap attached to it for the extreme cold weather. Donna Burkholder, her owner, didn't know if she should take her precious pooch to work at her psychotherapy practice by the public market but she tried it and every body loves her.

Donna calls Claire her little therapy dog, "If people get teary eyed she goes over and comforts them". She goes most of the places that Donna goes and now even people at the public market know Claire. She was very comfortable standing on Donnas lap while we rode a crowded bus to downtown exuding calm like a good therapy dog.

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