Animal Therapy Research Paper

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“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”(John Bunyan). This means that the more animals help us the less we can pay them. I think that by interacting and observing animals we can learn from a lot from them. Animals can be used for therapy, and helping people with disabilities,and finally saving and protecting us.

Therapy animals are trained for visiting people in hospitals and nursing homes. ”Therapy animals also perform an important job. After weeks of training, pets and their human handlers may be registered as a therapy pet team. Therapy animals visit and cheer up people in hospitals and nursing homes. Sometimes a warm, cuddly animal is great medicine to a lonely
There is a program called helping hands and they place monkeys with people who are disabled like Cook, “Since Minnie's arrival, Cook's life has completely changed. She opens jars for him, scratches his itches, and retrieves anything he might drop. And thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act, Minnie can go anywhere Cook does. At restaurants, "she gets me good tables," he jokes.” (Miracle Monkey SIRS Discoverer) This tells me that Minnie is a big help to Cook and more than a servant, she is like family to Cook. Monkeys are good help in the city, but out on a farm dogs are better. Owen is a framer, is legally bind,”Owen's daughter decided her proud mother needed a helping hand--or in this case, a wagging tail: Sweet Baby Jo, a friendly, energetic border collie that helps control the couple's Angus cattle.”(Specially Trained Dogs Help Out Farmers with Disabilities). More dogs are used on farms then other parts of the world, but Jo is even more important than most farm dogs because he helps a legally blind farmer. In different ways big animals like horses can help us. In an autobiography called Animals in Translation, “The kids would tease me so I'd get mad and smack em. That simple. They always started it, they liked to see me react. My new school solved that problem. The school had a stable and horses for the kids to ride, and the teachers took away horseback riding privileges if
In the book My Life in Dog Years on pages 5 & 6 “Two things saved me. One as I went down my hand fell across the rope I had thrown across the ice, which was still tied to the sled. Two as I dropped I had time to yell-scream-and the last thing I saw as I went under was Cookie’s head swinging up from sleeping and her eyes locking on mine as I went beneath the surface.” Later on “there was a large noose-knot on the end and it tightened and started pulling up and when the knot hit I grabbed and held and the dogs pulled me out of the hole and back up onto the ice.” (Gary Paulsen) I think this means that dogs will do anything to save their master and that includes pulling them out of frigid ice, and since they know what's going on in an instant they saved him before he drowned. Later in My Life in Dog Years, “Two steps ahead I saw a pretty colored ribbon lying along the trail. Another step closer and I saw it had moved. It wasn't a ribbon but a snake, one that-I was to learn later-was deadly. Some involuntary signal made me start to jump but i was too close. I was almost on the snake by that time. It was about to strike when a flash of black fur passed my leg and Snowball grabbed the snake just in back of the head and with a quick flip broke its neck.” (Gary Paulsen) This tells me that even small dogs are heroes in their own ways. Like Snowball was to Gary Paulsen. Finally in