- ISBN13: 9781929242054
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
You and your dog can become a therapy dog team!
Are you looking for a new and meaningful way to work with your dog? Do you want to improve the lives of those who because of illness or disability would benefit from visits with a volunteer canine “therapist”? Then think bout becoming a Therapy Dog Team and you will create the kind of magic that enriches lives.
Therapy Dogs, Training Your Dog to Reach Others, 2nd Edition gives you all the information you need to select, socialize and train your dog for this work. What better creature than a dog to offer comfort, companionship and even entertainment to people in a wide variety of settings?
You will learn: *What therapy dog work involves and how to train for it.
*Benefits therapy dog work provides for you, your dog and others.
*Various settings in which therapy dog teams do their work.
*Whether your family pet might make a good therapy dog.
*Selecting and training a puppy for therapy dog work.
*How to keep yourself and your dog fresh for the work.
INCLUDES a complete course outline for teaching therapy dog classes!
Health care facilities need this information NOW!
Don’t start an Animal Assisted Activity program at your facility without Therapy Dogs! You will have the latest information on how teams train, prevent problems, deal with liability issues as well as health and safety concerns. Therapy Dogs will help you understand what to look for in a program and in volunteers to assure success.
$12.75
Therapy Dogs: Training Your Dog to Reach Others
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Dennis Stevenson says:
03/27/2010 at 1:45 PM (UTC -5)
I’m just entering into the business of having a therapy pooch, and the text was helpful in understanding my role and lots of intricacies I hadn’t thought of.
Rating: 5 / 5
Celeste Davie says:
03/27/2010 at 12:16 PM (UTC -5)
If you plan to train you dog to be a Therapy Dog, this book is great. It covers just about anything that you will need to know! It is a bit lengthy, but is complete. It will give some ideas whether you want to proceed with your dog’s training for this work. Therapy dogs are wonderful animals for others to love.
Rating: 5 / 5
P. Pasda says:
03/27/2010 at 10:43 AM (UTC -5)
A nice guide to what your dog will have to do and be to do this work. be sure you want to share your dog in this way and be sure of the unpredictability of patients and dogs in general. your dog must have a quiet sound patient temperment to do this and so must you. Listen to the words of the book…. they make sense.Autumn of Blessed Acres service dog
Rating: 5 / 5
Carolyn Barter says:
03/27/2010 at 10:12 AM (UTC -5)
I am very pleased with this book, it has given me many ideas of what to do as a therapy dog team and how I can help others. I would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in doing therpay dog work.
Rating: 5 / 5
Gail Cassidy says:
03/27/2010 at 9:02 AM (UTC -5)
Book arrived quickly and in perfect condition.
Rating: 5 / 5