Champ, a 10-year-old Yorkie mix from Cohoes, N.Y., is the champion of PEOPLE’s World’s Cutest Rescue Dog Contest Presented by ...

A beloved therapy dog in Madera Unified is helping students learn about emotions both in person and through the pages of a ...

Jake the pit bull is working with his owner Dr. Risë VanFleet to become a certified animal-assisted play therapy dog after the psychologist adopted the dog from Best Friends Animal Society Kelli ...

We’ve just completed our New Dog Intake process in the B.A.R.K. program at the University of British Columbia where we saw 12 dogs out of 39 earn acceptance into the program. In this post, I reflect ...

A police department in Florida is celebrating the accomplishment of its sweetest employee. Jellybean at the time of her ...

Therapy dogs—not to be confused with service dogs—typically accompany their owners in environments like schools, hospitals, and nursing homes to provide comfort and support to individuals on a ...

Older age is a familiar marker for human retirement, so it’s tempting to extend the same logic to therapy animals. In practice, however, there is no clear cutoff or evidence-based guideline telling ...

A survey of 161 stakeholders at a special education school found broad endorsement of a decade-old therapy dog program's benefits for well-being, socio-emotional competence, and school climate, ...

The therapy pup and her owner are asking for donations to create "hero healing kits" for healthcare workers on the COVID-19 frontlines “Dogtor” Loki is making sure to look after Maryland nurses during ...

With wagging tails and kind eyes, the four-legged staff members at Evergreen High School welcome students each morning, walk ...

Lincoln author Lynn Kalemkiarian recently shared her story of her therapy dog through her new book, which is based on journal entries from when she was younger.