Recent content by nemonewf

i wanted to extend a great big thanks to all who replied to my 'charging for pet therapy' post. i printed the thread and gave it to our recreation therapy supervisor for reference on saturday. she has already contacted Delta and is working on starting the program up again. for less than what...

i don't know how many of you not from the new york area might have heard, but we had an incident here a couple weeks ago on long island. a little girl was mauled by a rottweiler while at PETCO. apparently, the handler of the dog was not the owner. the little girl will be fine, but had...

hello all, sorry this is long. the hospital where i work and do pet therapy uses a local pet assisted therapy program sponsored by a rotary and run by a vet. they charge $30/visit to cover costs of screening, training, insurance, and reimbursement of volunteers. if a volunteer does 24 visits...

okay, i''m only 4 days late, but our comptuer was glitchy. Happy birthday to my big boy nemo, who was 2 years old on january 27th!

i talked to someone about this tonight, but wanted other opinions as well. took nemo to the vet today because i think he's starting to get an ear infection - with inflammation, but not goop. he's been whining a little when he scratches his right ear and cried when i tried to clean it today...

hello all, we are new here, but i just wanted to say nemo is a pet therapy dog. i bring him to the hospital where i work about once a week to see the patients. they all love him and spend the rest of the week talking about the huge black dog. if there are any other therapy dogs out there...