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HELEN Head and her unlikely companion - a two-year-old pooch named Annie - have been making the residents of Fitzgerald Aged Care Windsor smile for two years now. Mrs Head, from South Windsor, began taking her Tenterfield Terrier to the facility to visit Mrs Head’s mum Avon Watson - a resident - around two years. Annie was only four months at the time and now looks forward to her daily visits with Mrs Watson (95) and the rest of the residents. “I started visiting with Annie for my mum, and then I started talking to the ladies and now I see them all after I see my mum,” said Mrs Head. “The residents love Annie to death! When I go in without her they say, where’s your little dog?!” Mrs Head said Annie (now two years old) is “one of the most gentle dogs ever.” “She’s never bitten anyone, ever since she was a pup,” she said. Mrs Head loves seeing the smiles on the residents’ faces when she comes in for her daily visit with Annie in tow. “She’s so lovely and so gentle with all the old people over there. Some people cuddle her, some people just pat her - she’s always got a lick and a smile for them!” she said. Mrs Head’s mum became a resident at Fitzgerald Aged Care around two years ago. “That’s why I’ve always gone. It’s a part of my day to go there now, and a part of Annie’s day, too!” She said Annie is well-behaved during their visits: “I can be there for two, two-and-a-half hours, and if I hold her in my arms she just sits there the whole time.” The Fitzgerald Aged Care Team thanked Mrs Head and Annie via a post on their Facebook page recently. “Our residents and staff are extremely grateful to be visited daily by Annie and her owner Helen, we can always tell when Annie is around as she leaves a smile wherever she goes,” the post stated. “Thank you both for being part of the Fitzgerald Family.”

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