Question: What are good therapy dog candidates?

Answer: Therapy dogs are brought to locations such as schools, libraries, nursing homes, and other settings where they can provide comfort to people. But UNLIKE service dogs, therapy dogs are not trained for specific tasks.

If you are someone who plans to get a therapy dog and want to know whether a dog is a good candidate, qualities that need to be in the dog include the following: the ability to stay calm, friendliness to strangers, trained in basic obedience, clean, and well-groomed.

Do you own an assistance animal? Register your pet. 

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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