(02-11-2013, 12:44 PM)ChanellG Wrote: There was something in the news recently about how a woman was somehow able to get her special needs son's pig approved as a therapy animal. Obviously the pig couldn't act like a specially trained dog that helps someone who is blind, but because of the emotional and psychological benefit she was successful in getting approval.
That's interesting! I once read something about a man who was trying to get his parrot approved as a therapy animal. He had social anxiety and/or agoraphobia (I can't remember exactly), and he couldn't muster up the emotional strength to go anywhere unless he took the parrot with him. He had trouble, because only dogs were approved as service animals in his location.
