span style="font-weight: bold; font-family: trebuchet ms;"The Associated Press/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"Therapy dogs can be a comfort for seniors and those recovering from illnesses and injuries. So how about therapy chickens? Jana Clairmont of Polson, Mont., calls her therapy birds — a white rooster and Cornish game hen — "Fowl Play."/spanbr /br /span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"On Thursday, she took them to visit residents at Polson Health and Rehabilitation Center in northeast Montana./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"Many seniors were raised on farms, Clairmont says, and holding a chicken can bring back memories./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"As one man stroked the rooster, Alex, the bird stretched out his neck and rested it across the man's forearm, like a puppy./spanbr /br /span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;"Clairmont has arranged visits to retirement and assisted living homes, and says she'd like to take Alex and Carlita, the hen, into classrooms this fall./spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1014426324976834758-4583175424320831640?l=123funny.blogspot.com'//div
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