Here are the four steps we followed to become a registered therapy dog team 🤝🐾✨ When we passed our therapy dog exam we got a lot of messages asking how we started! Pearl and I are registered with intermountain.therapy.animals ❤️ Huge shoutout to freshcanine if you are in the middle Tennessee area for helping us with our training. The AKC defines therapy dogs as “Therapy dogs play a different helping role than service dogs and emotional support animals. They aren’t trained to live with a specific handler. Rather, these are dogs that, with their human teammate (often the dog’s owner), volunteer in clinical settings. These locations include hospitals, mental health institutions, hospices, schools, and nursing homes. These dogs provide comfort, affection, and even love in the course of their work” #goldenretriever #therapydog #therapy #dog #doglover #volunteer #volunteerwork #dogtraining #therapyanimals