About Velma’s Pets As Therapy
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What makes Velma’s Pets As Therapy special?
What makes us pets as therapy experts?
What makes Velma’s Pets As Therapy special?
We have 22+ years of expertise. Our experience and success are second to none.
We have the expertise to teach the skills to people and pets to offer safe, risk-free, deeply beneficial, and totally rewarding pet therapy interaction for the client, the pet, and the pet handlers. We believe in a win-win-win situation!
Velma created, founded, and has managed Velma’s Pets As Therapy since April 1999. Prior to that, Velma trained dogs for pets as therapy for 2 years.
What makes us pets as therapy experts?
Velma’s Pets As Therapy has benefited over half a million people in over 20 years.
- We’ve organised 500,000+ pet therapy interactions with people.
- We’ve trained over 1000+ volunteers.
- We’ve trained over 1800+ pets including dogs, cats, rabbits, guinea pigs, chickens, parrots, goats, sheep, and ponies.
- We’ve trained over 500+ professionals including doctors, nurses, ministers, teachers, psychiatrists, psychotherapists, counselors, community workers, and staff to take their pets into hospitals, clinics, nursing homes, retirement villages, respite centers, schools, colleges, universities, the workplace and public places to interact with individuals and groups.