Petting therapy dogs enhances thinking skills of stressed college students

Good News Notes: “Programs exclusively focused on petting therapy dogs improved stressed-out students’ thinking and planning skills more effectively than programs that included traditional stress-management information, according to new Washington State University research. The study was published today in the journal AERA Open, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association. The paper demonstrated that…

Saginaw zoo gets two-toed sloth named Okra Mae

Good News Notes: “The Saginaw Children’s Zoo recently added a new member to its family. On Wednesday, Feb. 19, zoo officials announced a Hoffman’s two-toed sloth named Okra Mae is the newest addition to the Saginaw Children’s Zoo, 1730 S. Washington Ave. Okra came from  Zoo Atlanta, an association of zoos and aquariums in an…