You’ve probably heard of traditional service dogs before, who provide assistance to people with disabilities. Therapy dogs have been proven to be just as useful for assisting people with physical disabilities, as well as emotional trauma, loneliness, anxiety and depression.
Paws for people was established by Lesley de Klerk in 1997 and has been going strong for 22 years – that’s 154 in dog years!
We specialise in therapy dogs for:
- Retirement homes
- Frail Care Centres
- Abused and Abandoned Children
- Mentally Challenged (Children and Adults)
- Physically Challenged (Children and Adults)
- Children in the Court System
- Primary Schools (Bite Prevention)
- Nursery Schools (Bite Prevention)
Hospitals:
- Oncology
- Trauma
- Rehab
- Paediatrics
- Substance Abuse
- Anxiety and Depression
- In special cases I.C.U.
DID YOU KNOW?
Animal Assisted Therapy dates all the way back to the ancient Greeks, who used animals and horses in particular to lift the spirits of the severely ill.
OTHER SERVICES
In addition to Animal Assisted Therapy we also do Dog Training and Animal Education Programmes.
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