Links to therapy dogs, animal-assisted therapy, and animal-assisted services, from Dog-Play.

Advice, contacts, and links. Selection and training of the animal for pet therapy work.

A national registrar. Helps dog owners use their pets for therapy work. Qualifications of therapy dogs. How to have a safe visit.

A national registrar. Provides qualified handlers and their therapy dogs for visits. Training and testing programs.

Provides pet-assisted therapy (PAT) to meet the physical and emotional needs of the underprivileged. Find mission statement, links, articles, and information on recent visits.

Non-profit promotes animal assisted therapy. Benefits both the volunteer and those visited. Oakland, California.

Non-profit organization based in Salt Lake City dedicated to bringing comfort, love, and hope to those in need through the miracle of the human-animal bond.

An article by the owner of Jake on doing therapy dog visits.

A New Orleans non-profit. Hospital and nursing home visits by a variety of mix-breed and pedigreed dogs and cats, guinea pigs, and rabbits. All animals have been temperament tested during Pet and Handler Evaluation Days.

The loneliness of the terminally ill and elderly is relieved by visits from approved dogs. The health benefits of pets. Over 4500 volunteers in the United Kingdom.