Philanthropic Phriday 44: Pet Therapy

Have you adopted a pet or service animal during the pandemic? Many people have, and are finding their companion animals to be a source of enormous comfort and support.

There are of course people who, for various reasons, cannot or should not have a pet, but they may nonetheless benefit from some sort of pet therapy. So today I want to highlight two organizations which provide those services. One of them, Ottawa Therapy Dogs, is local:

https://www.ottawatherapydogs.ca

The other, Therapeutic Paws of Canada, is based in Hawkesbury but national in scope:

http://tpoc.ca

On the TPOC website there's a wealth of resources, including an extensive selection of videos of working dogs and cats, listening to children learn to read, visiting libraries, hospitals and seniors' homes, or just chilling out with their humans while these humans read stories or tell their own.