AKC Therapy Dog Program

So, what is a therapy dog?  Therapy dogs and their owners volunteer to help people in a variety of settings such as:

• Schools
• Hospitals
• Nursing homes
• Hospices
• Retirement homes

A therapy dog and their owner work as a team to help improve people's lives.  Maybe they visit a senior's facility and read to a group whose eyesight is failing.  


Therapy dogs are not service dogs.  Service dogs are trained to assist someone with disabilities; service dogs stay with the person needing the assistance.