04/24/2023
Looking forward to the HAI (Human-Animal Interactions) conference at Green Chimneys this weekend! Green Chimneys is a great place to attend a conference and your fellow conference attendees are an interesting group – see the photo above.
Where to get the next viable Animal Assisted Intervention candidate is a hotly debated topic. Many people get a puppy and announce this puppy is their new ¨therapy dog¨. Bare in mind this is the equivalent of having a newborn baby and announcing ¨this boy is going to be a doctor when he grows up¨ […]
Certainly in the top 10 questions I get asked is ¨What is the best breed for Animal Assisted Interventions¨? It´s a great question but a complex one. When I taught draft work, folks would ask ¨How much can a dog pull?¨ and the answer was ¨How old is the dog? What is the physical condition […]
Language is important. It reflects how we think but it also impacts our thinking. One of the words to consider carefully is “use”. Each time we say something along the lines of “we use the dog to facilitate occupational therapy” there is an implication the dog is something we use like a hammer, balance beam, […]
