The National Alliance on Mental Illness reports increasing levels of anxiety and mental illnesses among college students. And because of that, college students are seeking help that’s outside the box. They turn to emotional support animals.

While more students bring their pets to school, they also face many challenges. For example, a sophomore named Lauren Siffert shares how she tried to help her roommate get documentation for her emotional support animal. She says that a good first step is to obtain a letter from a doctor prescribing the animal.

Keep in mind that getting an emotional support animal only works if a person has a verified mental illness. Otherwise, that person could face fraud charges.

News article: bgfalconmedia.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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Rollo is a 12-year-old pug who was adopted five years ago by a veterinarian named Loni Ellsworth. Ellsworth knew that Rollo would make a good service dog. According to her, Rollo wasn’t the brightest dog she trained but he surely has a lot of love to give.

Rollo is 90% deaf. He sits by patients’ bedsides at St. Croix Hospice and lets them hold his paw. Ellsworth says that Rollo triggers past memories of patients and they get to open up about their whole lives.

If you are interested in becoming a pet therapy volunteer at St. Croix Hospice, you can contact the facility.

News source: desmoinesregister.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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Bella is a Weimaraner and therapy dog at Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center. Her owner, Sue Currey, happens to be the executive assistant at the center.

Currey has witnessed the effect of therapy dogs on patients and finally, her dream to be able to bring her own dog has come true. What’s interesting about Bella is that she survived cancer. Her cancer required surgery and fortunately, she was able to recover.

One of the people who met Bella during her rounds at Roswell was Sarah Ross. Ross is a leukemia patient who spends her years in recovery. She loves animals and she explains how she often distracts herself by thinking of her rabbits. She was amazed at Bella’s story.

News source: buffalonews.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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Dogs can improve a person’s quality of life in many ways. Guide Dogs of the Desert, a non-profit organization, offers blind individuals an opportunity to experience freedom and independence. They breed, train, and match qualified dogs to the legally blind.

A guide dog should not only know its roles, but it should also know when to break them. This concept called “intelligent disobedience” protects its handler from accidents. Executive director Ben Schirmer says that even if some dogs do not pass their program, they still get to be therapy dogs and rescue canines.

News source: desertsun.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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Llamas and alpacas are popular in TV commercials and toys. But they’re also becoming more common in hospitals, campuses, and senior centres as they relieve people’s stress.

Highschool sophomore Zoe and her parents keep 13 llamas and alpacas in their home in Stockdale. Three of their herd have qualified as registered therapy llamas. In their recent visit to a nursing home, residents in wheelchairs pet the llamas as they lower their heads. Staff members took selfies.

Niki Kuklenski, a long-time llama breeder is one of the first people who were able to use llamas for therapy reasons. She says that dogs can be a little too much for people (which makes llamas a good alternative). She mentions that one of her llamas named Flight has the ability to read people. Flight is cool and able to stand still when an individual seems apprehensive.

Article source: businesstimes.com.sg

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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Our pets serve to be a therapeutic and calming presence. So when students leave for school, they also leave their beloved pets behind. But nowadays, mental health concerns have become more common in universities. Campuses respond by providing therapy dog programs to relieve students’ stress. Carleton University is one of these campuses.

Shannon Noonan is Carleton’s healthy workplace coordinator, and she’s the one who started the program with her dog named Blue. Blue still works as a therapy dog at Carleton today. According to Noonan, the bond that students share with the therapy dogs at Carleton is special since these are the same dogs that interact with them every week.

All of the therapy dogs at Carleton are certified by the Ottawa Therapy Dogs (OTD). These dogs are chosen based on their temperament, trainability, and talent.

Article source: charlatan.ca

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.

Purchase your copy of the book by clicking the image below.

Are you interested in receiving free animal therapy? Whether you are suffering from a mental health condition or not, know that Dartmoor Zoo invites you to participate in their free study on animal assisted intervention or AAI.

What can you expect from this study? You get to spend a free day at the zoo and answer a questionnaire before and after your visit. Saliva samples will also be obtained from you. Male and female participants are welcome.

Lead experimenter Dennis Morris says that the study will likely go live in the New Year, and that its purpose is to “make a difference” in the lives of people who have mental health conditions such as PTSD and anxiety.

Article source: plymouthherald.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.

Purchase your copy of the book by clicking the image below.

If you haven’t heard of an emotional support alligator, you’ve got to read the story of Joie Henney and Wally. Henney, 65, had been doing gator rescues for over 10 years. Back in 2015, a friend of his asked him if he wanted a gator, and he agreed.

Henney says that it took him a month to be able to domesticate Wally. Like dogs, Wally is territorial. Henney takes Wally to schools and assisted-living facilities for educational purposes. But Henney also noticed that children appeared to be calmed by Wally’s presence, so he registered Wally as an emotional support animal.

Wally enjoys the top of his head rubbed. Henney says that Wally is just like a dog who wants to be loved and petted.

Article source: stockdailydish.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.

Purchase your copy of the book by clicking the image below.