Therapy dogs can't eat a raw diet? - Page 2

I was tasked with developing a therapy dog program for the facility I work at and found that rule by the Delta Society.  Hence, no therapy dog program.  I would worry more about some of the things that dogs could be exposed to in some settings. Patients who are severely immunocopromised should not really be included in pet therapy anyway, the risk is simply unsupportable.

I believe one of the board members of the Delta Society is also on the board of Purina.
Can we see a conflict here?

THE THERAPHY  dog gets his/her health in danger any time it even goes to the nursing home or hospital also.

The dog can stick his/her nose in anything along the way and it is a health problem if someone wants to put every dog under a microscope.

Never heard of such a rule.Do they ask you personally what the dog eats or what you did 2 hours before you came...Touching a light switch in any nursing home can have feces off those patients who some of them do not even know how to wipe their butts or may have any body fluid they have on anything in any place you or your dogs touches to and from

AND THEY WANT TO TELL YOU NO RAW >>>UNBELIEVABLE>>>

It is true , most dog diseases do not transfer to humans and vice versa, but a lot of them do and a lot of germs are transfered either way..

Look for another DOG THERAPHY  registry , rather than the one you applied to..


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