Psychiatric Service Dogs for PTSD
Learn what psychiatric service dogs can do and what tasks they perform for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) from Amy Book, licensed mental health counselor (LMHC).
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9 Tips For Training Your Dog To Become A Service Dog
Training your own service dog can be an incredibly rewarding experience for both you and your furry friend. However, you must be willing to dedicate both time and effort for the best results. If you’re up for the challenge, you’ll be rewarded by a tenfold with the safety, reliability, and loyalty your dog can provide.
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How to Make Your Dog a Service Dog
Get your dog certified as a service dog with this comprehensive guide! Learn more how to travel with your service dog for free avoiding airline fees and live with your dog in no-pet property officially.
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101 Guide on Traveling Internationally with a Service Dog
Regulations you need to know for flying with a service dog internationally. It is well within your power to ensure the smoothest and most successful international trip possible for you and your service dog. Read on to find out how.
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Urgent Update : First Dog Dies of Coronavirus
The South China Morning Post reported that the dog belonged to a woman 60 years of age who herself had just recovered from COVID-19.
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Here’s How Psychiatric Service Dogs Help with Mental Illness
Dogs offer companionship, comfort, and unconditional love to their owners. They become members of the family. Moreover, dogs can also support people struggling with acute psychiatric distress. With the right training, a service dog can substantially increase one’s sense of stability and well-being.
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Can Dogs and Cats get Coronavirus?
Ever since the World Health Organization declared in early March of 2020 that the COVID-19 novel coronavirus has become a global pandemic, people have started putting their dogs and cats in face masks, prompting the question: can dogs and cats get coronavirus?
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Your Emotional Support Dog Can Become a Service Dog
If you do choose to register your service dog, in addition to inclusion in a database others can check to ensure the dog you intend to bring into a dog-free space is actually a service dog, you also get some other convenient benefits. For one, you receive a certificate identifying you as the owner of a service dog and ID tags identifying your dog as a service dog. You also get a vest your dog can wear in public to show that he or she is a service dog.
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Department of Transportation Could Ban Emotional Support Animals
On Wednesday, January 22, 2020, the United States Department of Transportation proposed new rules regarding service animals and emotional support animals on planes. Among these changes are that the Department of Transportation would no longer require airlines to accommodate air travelers with emotional support animals.
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How Vitamins and Animals Can Help Support Your Emotional Wellbeing
Because mental health concerns play such an important role in reducing productivity and diminishing the potential of many brilliant men and women today, it’s important for us to explore stand-alone and adjunctive therapies that may enhance the effectiveness of medication and/or be beneficial in improving overall mental wellbeing.
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