The Different Conditions Therapy Dogs Help Treat

Human kind's best friends truly earn their names when they take on the mantle of therapy or service dogs. Sometimes people confuse the two, but service dogs are specifically trained to assist their disabled owners with certain tasks, whereas therapy dogs provide comfort and companionship to their owners or those in hospitals or long-term care facilities. Therapy dogs can be any size and shape. They must be even-tempered, friendly and patient. Interactions with therapy dogs have been shown to lessen the vast emotional weight that people might be experiencing. Just the sight of a therapy dog entering a space can spread smiles.