Visits from therapy dogs are moving online as hospitals and other healthcare facilities restrict the number and types of visitors to slow the spread of the new coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19.

Divine Canines, a Central Texas therapy dog organization, has more than 150 certified volunteers who take their dogs to people in need of a visit. The group’s executive director, Max Woodfin, has so far heard of a few dozen who’ve tried out virtual visits thus far in the pandemic.

Heroes come in all shapes and sizes -- this one just happens to have four legs and a furry coat.

Wynn, a service dog in training, is bringing joy and comfort to the medical staff on the front lines of the coronovirus fight in Denver.

Searchers in eastern Alabama have found a four-year-old girl who was missing for two days in a wooded area. The girl was in good condition and had a dog at her side when rescuers approached, authorities said.

Unless you went through the Spanish Flu of 1918 and the Great Depression of 1929, you wouldn’t really know what we’re going through now as a community, county, country, continent, and world facing the COVID-19 pandemic. Even if you were an adult in 1918 and 1929, the panic of a virus and of economic disaster didn’t happen at the same time, everywhere, like we’re seeing now.

"She's like, 'Why are you in my house?'"

Humans, it seems, aren’t the only ones whose regular routines have been disrupted by the recent need to stay hunkered down indoors.