Saving ONE senior dog at a time and educating MANY young minds to create a legacy of compassion and advocacy!
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Lionel’s Legacy

Lionel's Legacy is a 501c3 non-profit San Diego based senior dog rescue and humane education program for elementary school children. Our Tax ID is 46-1123304

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Lionel's Legacy
Lionel's Legacy

Welcome to the Lionel's Legacy NOSE GARDEN!
🌿🌻 Enriching brain development in older dogs through sensory stimulation 🌻🌿

Recently, Daisy's foster family had a house fire which required all of the humans and animals to be temporarily displaced. Fortunately everyone is safe but Daisy needed an emergency placement while we searched for a temp. Foster for her so of course she joined us at Casa de Lionel. We thought Daisy would be the perfect candidate to give us feedback on our NOSE GARDEN. The garden is filled with specifically selected herbs and plants such as lemon thyme, sages, mint, lemon balm, lavender, citronella, Rosemary, various scented roses to activate the senses and encourage brain development and maintenance in older dogs. Ok, it may sound a bit over the top but we've been doing our research and we've found that it really seems to be helping! It's enough to make the canine senses go wild, especially for a deaf and blind gal like Daisy. She loved it so much we actually had to limit her experience so she didn't overdo it on her first go! Who can blame her, it was like heaven being able to activate her sense of smell which in turn activates and stimulates her physical and cognitive brain development and that's exactly what the NOSE GARDEN was created for.

Cognitive dysfunction is something old dogs deal with too and if we continue to provide them with access to things that mentally and physically stimulate them then like us they will continue to grow and maintain synapses in their brains and maintain healthy happy lives.

Here are a couple of articles, happy reading and of course if you happen to test out these theories please post some pics! Next step at Lionel's Legacy is a physical sensory playyard. 😉

www.whole-dog-journal.com/issues/7_11/features/Canine-Sense-of-Smell_15668-1.html

yourdog.co.uk/The-Your-Dog-Blog/stimulate-your-dog-s-senses-with-his-own-sensory-garden.html

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3956134/#!po=8.19328 ... See MoreSee Less

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