Yorkshire Terriers: Therapy Dogs

We can train dogs in many ways possible that they can even do tricks as we command them. We trained them to provide comfort and affection to certain people in need. A therapy dog may be trained to help people in nursing homes and hospital settings and much more. They can be trained to help disabled people. Wow, can you imagine that? A nurse dog!

Therapy dogs should have a friendly temperament. They are usually gentle in nature, patient and confident. Some things that are important for a trained therapy dog are: Accepting friendly stranger; usually therapy dog is trained to allow unfamiliar people to make physical contact with it. For example, children in particular, and also adults may enjoy safely petting the trained therapy dogs. Some therapy dogs can actually perform small tricks during their visits. With the help of a handler, the therapy dog is being trained to sit and stay in place and to come when called. And the dog should behave politely around other dogs. The dog is being examined around medical equipment using devices like a wheelchair or walker, or other medical devices which we can usually see at medical institutions. The examination is to know the dog’s reactions to these things during training. Trained therapy dogs are sometimes used for the following:

•To help the disabled.
•Trained Seeing Eye dogs help the semi to permanently blind person.
•Some dogs are actually trained to know when a person is going to have a seizure.
•Sometimes children with difficulties will relate well to a dog or cat.
•Therapy dogs are sometimes used in nursing homes for the elderly.

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