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Rescue pets and people at risk of social isolation help each other through program that 'flips' animal therapy

After losing her pet Rottweiler, retiree Cheryl Cooper longed for animal companionship. 

Ms Cooper lives in a retirement home at Edgeworth in New South Wales' Hunter Valley where it is too difficult for her to own and care for a pet. 

But two years ago, she discovered the not-for-profit organisation Happy Paws Happy Hearts (HPHH), which connects vulnerable people with rescue animals as a "flip" on animal therapy. 

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