Therapy Animals: 4 Places where They're Useful

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• Monday 03 February 2020, 11:00-12:00
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Therapy animals are the animals that are used to comfort people in several different settings. They are different than service and emotional support animals. Service animals are employed by the people that have some physical limitations. For instance, the people who use wheelchairs or those who need some help in moving around take service animals as help. These animals need special training.

Emotional support animals, on the other hand, do not need any special training to be an ESA . They just need to be well mannered and disciplined. Unlike an emotional support animal that needs an ESA letter, a therapy animal is registered as a therapy animal and it visits different places along with its owner.

Below are some places where these therapy animals are changing lives.

Courtrooms Bringing in therapy animals in the courtrooms helps the victim’s and especially children who have gone through a trauma and are there to testify against the convicted. Courtrooms are intense and not everyone could withstand the environment.

Therapy dogs and cats stand with the victims to give them the feeling that they are not alone. Reportedly, running your hands in a dog or cat’s coat relieves stress and helps to ease the person’s senses.

Hospitals Other than courtrooms, therapy animals play an important role in hospitals and nursing homes also. Since, the family members of the patients could not stay with them all the time, they feel lonely and desolate when left alone. This leads to isolation and depression, which cause other mental and emotional problems.

Having an animal like a ESA dog or a cat as a companion helps the patients in relieving their stress and feel less isolated. People who are in hospital are more sensitive and many of them think that people are judging them. In case of animals, they know that no one is judging them.

Hospices A hospice is a place where the person batting from a deadly disease may spend the final months of his or her life. It is different than a hospital because here, people are not treated of their disease but the staff makes sure that their final days are as painless and peaceful as possible.

Animals are notorious for the or infectious personalities. Visits from therapy dogs and cats provide companionship to the dying and helps them build relationship with the or families also. This minimizes loneliness, isolation and depression.

Educational Institutions Children who have just started their schooling are very anxious about the new setting and are afraid of leaving their house. Therapy animals, especially dogs, are very friendly as they are trained to be comfortable around strangers. Having these playful creatures around help the kids to be happy and make friends with each other.

Other than newschoolers, these animals also help the students in universities and colleges to relieve their exam anxiety. Exam season is tough and the entire institute is usually drenched in exam fever and stress. Presence of these furballs loosen up this stress and help everyone relax.

Animals are absolutely fun to have around. The or carefree and easygoing personalities make them ideal as service, therapy and emotional support animals. However, in case of getting and ESA , it is better to ask for a free emotional support animal letter sample to check the content and prevent any possible fraud.

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