History of Animal Assisted T

History of Animal-Assisted Therapy:

Animal asssisted therapy has been taken place over the course of many years.  Not unitl recently, has it become a more well known profession to get a degree in.  It was not until the 20th century that  animals were considered or recognized to have the ability to preform therapy.  In 1997, Therapy Dog International was founded by Elaine Smith, which was the first organization to have the first register therapy dogs in the United States.   A year after,  The Delta Society started research on how animals of all sorts can impact and affect a person's life.  Now today, there are many organizations which promote animal assisted therapy and provide animals to help people with all different needs.