As Manchester Community College students prepare to take their final exams next week, the college offers virtual pet therapy sessions as a stress relief service.

Laurel Rabschutz, a pet therapy expert says, “Hopefully, just seeing the dog will help them relax a little,” despite the fact that students won’t be able to pet a dog or cat.

The community college started the program in 2015 as a partnership with Manchester-based Tails of Joy, a nonprofit network of volunteers and their therapy animals.

Before the pandemic, “Students facing the crunch of final exams visited designated classrooms to interact with the pets, and they always emerged feeling better,” said Paula Pina, the college’s Associate Library Director.

News source: courant.com

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The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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The Fair Housing Act requires that landlords and rental property owners make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. This includes allowing service animals and support animals at rental properties to avoid discrimination of individuals with disabilities.

However, how would one know that an animal falls into one of these categories and not just an owner trying to get past the restriction?

As defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act:

“A service animal is a dog that is individually trained to do work or perform tasks for the benefit of a person with a disability. Other trained or untrained animals that do work, perform tasks, or provide assistance or therapeutic/emotional support for individuals with disabilities are typically termed support animals.”

While these are different criteria for qualifications, service animals require no documentation and the landlord can ask about the task that a service animal is trained to do.

News source: wilmingtonbiz.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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In British Columbia, Canada, the Strata Property Act governs the relations between condominiums and their owners/tenants but doesn’t say anything about animals and pets. What is said, however, is that if you live with a pet in a condominium at the time when a pet prohibition/restriction law is passed, you and your pet will be exempted from the approved law.

But what about tenants who aren’t grandfathered by the law? To grant permission to owning and having an Emotional Assistance Animal in your condo, you have to claim and prove you have a disability. You also have to prove that not having your companion animal would have a negative effect on you because of that disability.

News source: straight.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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Chronic cat kidney disease has been a nightmare for cat owners. It happens randomly, has no known cure, and is the leading cause of cat death when they reach over five years old. A Belgian company named Mars Petcare has developed an AI-powered tool.

The tool is called RenalTech. This system produces an early diagnosis of chronic cat kidney disease. The tool analyzes a cat’s data such as blood urea nitrogen, creatinine, urine specific gravity protein, white blood cell count, and urine pH. With this, the RenalTech system is able to predict if a cat will develop chronic kidney disease in a period of two years with 95% accuracy.

News source: syncedreview.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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Underdog Unity is an initiative with a network of volunteers across the United Kingdom. For this this initiative, volunteers are matched with people in Sheffield who are in need of help caring for their dog. Services include walking, caring for, and taking the dogs of affected owners to vets.

“I had this idea a couple of weeks ago to create this network of volunteers across the UK, who can help dog owners who have been impacted by the coronavirus,” says Nadine Kayser, the charity’s founder, and CEO. She adds, “All the fantastic volunteers are helping people who are facing various issues, some are key workers who haven’t been able to look after their pets all the way through those suffering from mental health challenges.”

News source: thestar.co.uk

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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Every day, Harley helps patients with Parkinson’s Disease in their personal therapy at St. Augustine Rehab Specialists. The 3-year-old Labrador Retriever’s presence, however, is just as important as his work. Harley and Melani Lomaglio, a physical therapist, were matched through Canine Companions for Independence a year ago.

“Parkinson’s causes what we call non-motor symptoms which is depression, anxiety, and apathy. So, when something like coronavirus comes along, all of those things are exacerbated,” said Lomaglio. Whenever a session begins, Harley’s human also says, “He immediately clears their mind. They’re not thinking about coronavirus when they walk through the door. They’re thinking: “Oh, there’s Harley!”

Despite the viral outbreak, the CCI is working hard to help more people in need of therapy and service. More than 400 people nationwide are waiting for their service dogs.

News source: news4jax.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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Inside the Fayetteville Animal Shelter, there are no cats left as all the other animals have already been adopted. However, there are still three dogs left without a home compared to the 12 to 25 animals the shelter houses before the pandemic.

Superintendent Justine Lentz has stated, “Hopefully we’re kind of reaching the peak of things here, of course we don’t know, no one does, but we just want to make sure we’re prepared in case things do get worse to be able to help animals who truly are in a life threatening situation. But our community support has just been amazing”. As of now, all adoption fees by the shelter are being waived.

News source: nwahomepage.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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While our news feeds are flooded by goofy animals providing us isolation relief, there are strays who don’t get the share of attention and care. These stray animals rely on vegetable markets for food. As human activity is exponentially reduced and businesses are closed, these animals are facing starvation.

Here small daily acts which people can do to help stray animals be safe and healthy:

• Place water and food bowls outside your houses.
• Coordinate with other residents in your neighborhood to do the same and help the strays in your locality avoid starvation.
• Speak to local authorities and animal welfare organizations for animal assistance as they can aid in decision making and help in caring for stray animals during the pandemic.

News source: dailypioneer.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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The coronavirus pandemic has changed the world we live in and mostly in a depressive tone. But despite the gloom of isolation in our homes, the animals we live with do their best to keep us happy even when they’re oblivious to what’s happening outside.

Megan Mueller, the Elizabeth Arnold Stevens Junior Professor at Cummings School said, “A lot of us are connecting remotely with other people right now, and that’s great. But pets are physically present in a way that other forms of social and emotional support aren’t these days for many people, and there’s really something to having that tactile component of petting or touching a pet.”

News source: amityvillerecord.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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GreaterGood.org has given a pet food grant to the IHS (Idaho Humane Society) to help pandemic-struck Idahoans feed their pets. This boosts the efforts of the IHS Pet Food Pantry in assisting and providing monthly pet food distributions.

Kristine Schellhaas, Communications Manager of the Idaho Humane Society says, “We’re honored to extend a helping hand to our friends and neighbors across Idaho who have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic and look forward to assisting even more families and animals through this generous grant”. Pet owners in need of assistance can sign up on IHS’s website. Community members that are interested in contributing to the pantry are asked to donate wet cat food.

News source: idahonews.com

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet today. 

The Service Animal Registry of California invites you to have your assistance animal registered in order to designate its status. We also encourage you to take our online classes so you can be fully aware of your rights and gain more knowledge about your support animal.

Finally, we present to you our book entitled, “ASSISTANCE ANIMAL LAWS: LEARN YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING SERVICE ANIMALS, EMOTIONAL SUPPORT ANIMALS, THERAPY PETS, AND OTHER DOGS, CATS, AND ASSISTANCE ANIMALS” to provide you with a complete education on assistance animals.

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