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Teaming With Your Therapy Dog
Teaming With Your Therapy Dog | Ann R. Howie
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Today's therapy-dog handlers recognize the need to be teammates with their dogs. Teaming with one's dog involves unobtrusively providing physical and emotional support as well as respectful guidance in what to do. Being a teammate requires attention to our own behavior, not just our dogs. 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. 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! 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 describes functional principles of behavior you can learn and use immediately, either together as a package or independently." Using an exciting new methodology, the author guides readers to deepen their relationship with their dogs by acting consciously and respectfully.
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DogMomIrene
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📢 Happy to announce that Bernie McSquare and his papa passed their therapy dog test. Thank you all for the well wishes. Now we wait for next administrative steps from Companion Paws. While Bernie did well with kids during training sessions, my husband will probably be visiting the hospice house here and some retirement homes. He‘s also going to see if Island EMS stations across PEI would like visits from Bernie.

Amiable Yay! Congrats to Bernie and his papa! 6mo
DogMomIrene @Amiable Thank you! I‘m so proud of my guys. 6mo
Librarybelle Yay!!! 6mo
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Kappadeemom How sweet🥰 6mo
Captivatedbybooks If this picture doesnt pull at your heart strings then you dont have one ❣️❣️❣️ 6mo
Mollyanna Woohoo! Way to go Bernie and his papa! I know his future friends will appreciate all the work 🐶🐾🐶 6mo
sherrisilvera ❤️❤️❤️❤️ 6mo
AmyG What a beautiful, sweet photo. ❤️ 6mo
Tamra 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Way to go! 6mo
marleed The best💕💕💕 6mo
Read4life Congratulations to all!!! This photo melted my heart! ❤️ 6mo
Ruthiella ❤️🐶❤️🐶❤️ 6mo
dabbe OMG, look at dat pup's face! Mr. Connection! 🖤🐾🖤 6mo
AnnCrystal 👏🥳👍 Congratulations Bernie 💕🐕💝💝💝. 6mo
mrp27 💗💗💗 6mo
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DogMomIrene
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Thanks for the tag @AllDebooks for #SaturdayChatterday

We‘re quite excited! Our labradoodle Bernie has aspired to be a therapy dog for 7ish years. We‘ve moved 3x in those years, so we‘ve done a lot of preparing/training. My husband Matthew and Bernie will be testing tomorrow for Companion Paws Canada. Our trainer says they‘re ready. I know they‘re ready. Crossing all our paws that test jitters don‘t make either of them too nervous. 🦮💜🐾

Susanita My friend does therapy visits with her dog and loves it. Crossing my paws that the test goes well! 6mo
Mollyanna Best of luck to Bernie (and your husband) on the test. 🤞🏻 6mo
tpixie 🐾🩶🐾 6mo
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BethM Yay! 6mo
mcctrish Good luck to Bernie today! My mom and her dog Reilly were a therapy dog team for quite a few years and loved it 6mo
Amiable Yay for Bernie! I work at a hospital and we have therapy dogs here. The patients—and staff!— love them. 6mo
AmyG How wonderful. We have a group that comes to our local hospital. Therapy dogs are heroes. (edited) 6mo
AnnCrystal 👏😍💕🐕💝...hope Bernie's tests go wonderful 🤞🐾💝. 6mo
dabbe #allthefeels 🖤🐾🐾🖤 6mo
DogMomIrene @Susanita @Mollyanna @tpixie @BethM @mcctrish @Amiable @AmyG @AnnCrystal @dabbe Thanks all! Matthew just did a quick review and they‘re looking poised for success💜🐾 6mo
tpixie @DogMomIrene 💚🍀💚 6mo
AnnCrystal @DogMomIrene 👏🥳🐾💝. 6mo
Chelsea.Poole Bernie looks SO ready! 6mo
DogMomIrene @Chelsea.Poole Thank you. He really is. 6mo
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