Therapy Dog Training?
Does anyone know anything about the requirements for having a Therapy Dog in Newark, NY or Rochester, NY?
Therapy dogs are trained, tested, registered and insured so that they will be invited to visit facilities such as hospitals and nursing homes to cheer up the patients, or to schools for educational programs.
Requirements are not set at the state level, but by the individual organization that does the testing and registering and by the facilities that do the inviting. If you have a specific facility you wish to visit, ask them first if they permit therapy animal visits and then what their requirements are. Some will only accept teams from specific organizations and it would be a shame to test and register with one only to find out it isn’t one accepted by the facility.
The top three therapy dog organizations in the US are:
http://deltasociety.org
http://tdi-dog.org
http://therapydogs.com
Rex the Wonder Dog at the Universalist Church.wmv
