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Home / Recreation / Pets / Animal Assisted Therapy
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- Alternative Solutions in Long Term Care - Animal Assisted and Pet Therapy Web Site for long term care. Information on how to set up a pet therapy clubs with children Also overnment regulations,nursing home information, links and resources to get you started in pet therapy.
www.activitytherapy.com/pet.htm
- Animal Assisted Therapy - This "Super Dog" site features the stories of individual therapy dogs, most with pictures. Includes an easy form for submitting your own Therapy Dog story.
www.superdog.com/therapy.htm
- Discovery Dogs - We are a unique program whose mission is to promote self-determination and greater independence by providing individualized assistance dog training programs for people with disabilities.
www.DiscoveryDogs.org
- Dog Play - Taking pets, especially dogs, visiting people in health care facilities; therapy ranges from mental and physical stimulation; petting the dogs, formal supervised therapy addressing a particular situation.
www.dog-play.com/therapy.html
- Dog Visitation Program Overview, Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati - The Children's Hospital Medical Center of Cincinnati Dog Visitation program recruits, screens, and trains teams of volunteer dogs and their handlers to visit pediatric patients.
www.cincinnatichildrens.org/volunteer/dog
- Dog-Play: Joining a Therapy Dog Group - Finding someone to certify your dog is often a frustrating experience. The evaluations offered by the national organizations aren't always as frequent and convenient as you might like.
www.dog-play.com/join.html
- Giving Unconditional Love - Fidos for Freedom is a volunteer assistance dog training organization in Baltimore. The URL takes you to the Therapy Dog page featuring dozens therapy dog stars. Each dog has its own thumbnail picture which is linked to a larger picture and short bios.
www.fidosforfreedom.org/FFF_Therapy_Dogs.htm#Return
- Healing Dogs - Describes the psychological healing and support provided by service dogs, especially companion golden retrievers. Included are true stories and a psychology contest named "You vs Your Dog".
www.healinghelp.org
- Intermountain Therapy Animals - Non-profit organization bringing animal resources to human needs. Specializing in animal-assisted therapy in the areas of physical, occupational, speech and psychotherapies.
www.therapyanimals.org
- Mastiffs offer therapeutic companionship - The story of four giant mastiffs and their new-found roles as therapy dogs. By Tara Maguire at the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal.
www.lubbockonline.com/news/022597/mastiffs.htm
- My Life as a Therapy Dog - A former racing greyhound named Jordan briefly "tells" his story of spreading love as a registered Pet Therapy dog.
www.abap.org/therapy2.htm
- My Therapy Puppy! - A Belgian Tervuren puppy named Shadow visits his senior citizen friends weekly. Site includes photographs, stories, links and animal assisted therapy resources.
www.geocities.com/Petsburgh/Park/3810
- North Star Dogs - North Star Foundation is a nonprofit organization that breeds, trains and places golden retrievers with children who have developmental disabilities, physical challenges or emotional problems.
www.northstardogs.com
- Pacific Animal Therapy Society - Pet visitations improve the wellbeing of the sick, elderly, lonely and shut-ins. P.A.T.S pets come in all shapes and sizes. While most are dogs, P.A.T.S. therapy pets include cats, rabbits, birds, goats, even a llama, a miniature horse, and a snake.
www.island.net/~patspets
- Paws For Health pet visitation program - Non-profit pet visitation program which uses community volunteers and their adult dogs to visit hospitalized children.
views.vcu.edu/paws
- Pet-Assisted Therapy - Description of the pet assisted therapy program in place at the San Diego Humane Society.
www.sdhumane.org/programs/petassistedtherapy.cfm
- Rottweilers can be friends, therapy dogs, too - An entertaining article from the on-line edition of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about a rescued Rottweiler with a new and rewarding job.
www.post-gazette.com/pets/19990217pets.asp
- Service and Therapy Dogs - An introduction to service and therapy dogs.
www.cofc.edu/~huntc/service.html
- Service Dogs for Victims of Assault - Non-profit organization which uses dogs as therapeutic aids for victims of assault. Includes information about the dogs used and their training.
www.dogsaver.org/sdva
- SHAREing the Love - Marin Humane Societys SHARE program in Novato, California.
www.marinhumanesociety.org/wwd_SHARE.html
- Therapy dog helps Newark students - Courier-Gazette Digital Edition story of a retired guide dog turned therapy dog who works in a Newark high school classroom. Includes photo.
www.our-hometown.com/Courier-Gazette/common/news/1997/Nov97news/879975276406.html
- Therapy Dog Team Training Program - Lyn Richards talks about the requirements for a good therapy dog. From her DogLogic.com site.
www.doglogic.com/therapy.htm
- Therapy Dogs - Links to therapy dogs, animal-assisted therapy, and animal-assisted services, from Dog-Play.
www.dog-play.com/therapyl.html
- Therapy Dogs - Getting Started - If youre considering becoming part of a therapy dog team, heres a wonderful place to get lots of information on how to get started.
www.amchessieclub.org/TherapyDog.html
- Utah Animal-Assisted Therapy Association - We are a non-profit organization based in Salt Lake City dedicated to bringing comfort, love, and hope to those in need through the miracle of the human-animal bond.
uaata.org
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