Therapy Dog Provides Comfort to Those Who Care for the Dead

PHOTO BY ANNIE CERUTTI You can’t help but get a warm and fuzzy feeling around Winifred “Winnie” Valentine — even at a funeral. Standing about a foot tall, the blue-eyed Pomeranian-Siberian husky mix, or Pomsky, is the Director of Love and Affection at the Pittsburgh Institute of Mortuary Science in Shadyside. After a long day spent caring for the dead,...