Becoming a Therapy Dog - Part 6

If you’re just joining us, catch up by reading Becoming a Therapy Dog - Parts 1  through 5.  Back to our story where we just received our official Delta Society Pet Partners badges… We must be close now…actually depending on the facility you want to visit, you’re probably still 4-8 weeks away from visiting your first patient. What?? We’re already a registered therapy dog team, what could possibly take another 4-8 weeks?? Well now you have to go through the volunteer program for the facility that you want to visit. If you want to visit a hospital, you’re probably looking at a long bureaucratic process. We’ve heard that it can take less time for nursing homes and other facilities, but we can’t speak from experience on those. We decided that we wanted to visit a local facility with a pet therapy program. Volunteering as a therapy dog team ususally involves a weekly committment, so we wanted to make it as easy as possible to keep our c...