Teacup Breeds Make Excellent Therapy Dogs
Feb 23
Affordablepup.com has affectionate Teacup Maltese for sale to provide fun and happiness to a loving family. The pom puppies for sale at our facility will have their owners wrapped around their finger in no time. All of the puppies purchased from our kennel are extraordinary but, some puppies have what can only be defined as a 6th sense. Somehow nature has instilled in their little hearts a wisdom many other dogs don’t have and that wisdom is what a therapy dog has.
There are many ‘sayings’ about people who go into one of the helping fields. Comments like ‘teachers are born and not made’ or ‘when other children were playing on the playground she was inside caring for her sick baby doll.’ Many people know from very early on what they were put on this earth to do. Some of our dogs, we believe, have that same intuition.
Therapy dogs come in all shapes and sizes. Some of the larger dogs are used to help patients in physical therapy by slowly walking with them or simply encouraging them with the wag of a tail. The larger dogs certainly serve their purpose but, it is the smaller dogs especially the teacup breeds that make all the difference for a hospitalized or Hospice patient.
The smaller breeds, like the Teacup Yorkies for sale Ohio pet owners love so much, can sit in the lap of a bedridden patient. Have you ever had a Labrador sit in your lap? For those patients something small, warm and affectionate to cuddle means the world to them. The small breeds enjoy closeness and much of the time will lick the face of the person who is holding them. A therapy dog does more than just visit one person. What many health facilities don’t know is the therapy dog will create a bond between other patients. When ambulatory patients find out there is a therapy dog in someone else’s room they will go to that room. Those patients may have not known each other prior to the dogs visit but, after the dog leaves they will have something in common to chat about. The dog reduces loneliness even when he or she isn’t there.
Therapy dogs have to go through classes and certification but, many of our puppies are naturals at what they do and breeze through the training. Our wish at Affordablepup.com is for you to have a puppy as a loving companion. However, if you think you have a puppy with a healing spirit, and you will know soon after you get them home, talk the therapy dog certification team in your area. Then take your puppy to a Hospice facility one a week and let him or her cuddle with the residents. You will take pride in what your puppy can do for others. Drop us a line or send us a picture of your dog doing what they were born to do.
