That's a cute story. Props to good people like that woman that help take care of distressed animals and others who choose to do so for distressed people.
Must suck to have anxiety as an animal, with no way to rationalize it and compartmentalize it. I just started getting anxiety attacks this past year just for driving on highways. After 20 years of doing it without a care in the world. And it sucks. But at least I can put my thinking cap on and deal with it. An animal must have no clue, and just be stressed and stressed. They say dogs have the learning ability of a 2 year old - as far as how many words they can potentially understand. But they can't know what anxiety is and deal with it. Must be terrible.