Teaming with Your Therapy Dog Howie Ann R.Paperback
Teaming with Your Therapy Dog Howie Ann R.Paperback Today's therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just…
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Teaming with Your Therapy Dog Howie Ann R.Paperback
Today's therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just our dogs. Teaming with one's dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do.
These general principles free handlers to apply them in their own way to their therapy dogs individual personality and work, and to everyday life at home! This book reminds all handlers that being conscious of what we do with our dogs helps them do their best work, and also can increase the effectiveness of our visits.Teaming with Your Therapy Dog teaches the STEPs of Teamwork and how those STEPs fit with the Therapy Dogs Bill of Rights. As the author writes, The book explores a way of being conscious of what you do with and to your therapy dog to support him in his work. It