At 10, with upright ears and one back leg missing, Champ has been named the 2026 winner of PEOPLE’s World’s Cutest Rescue Dog ...

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

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 ...

When Kellenberg Memorial High School opened in 1987, the school's leaders brought their beloved dogs along. Decades later, the campus has welcomed even more animals, helping students relax, relieve ...

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 ...

PICKENS COUNTY, S.C. (WSPA) — The Pickens County Sheriff’s Office’s therapy dog, Wyatt the Weightlifter, has been nominated for the fourth annual First Responder Paws Therapy Dog Award. TFHE Health, a ...

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 ...

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 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, ...

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 ...

People flying in and out of Sacramento International Airport have a four-legged team of volunteers to help reduce the stress ...