Cat-focused animal assisted therapy?

January 3, 2012 10:22 AM

Are there animal assisted therapy programs tailored to cats?

The google points me to organizations like the Delta Society, which accepts cats but appear to be dog-centric. I would not want to have to go through training and evaluation if they are mostly tailored to canines.
Jurisdiction doesn't matter because if they are not local I can surely get a good referral.

posted by moammargaret to Pets & Animals (3 answers total)

This seems to be a list of all the animal-assisted therapy organizations in the country. A lot of them are Delta Society affiliates, and many of the rest appear to be dog-centric.

Really though, the field is still quite young, and dogs are so much easier to train and interact so much more readily and consistently with humans that it's not hard to understand why the field seems mostly canine oriented at the moment.
posted by valkyryn at 10:32 AM on January 3, 2012

The group i worked with several years ago was mostly dogs, but there were a few cats and also a rabbit!


posted by lawhound at 1:18 PM on January 3, 2012

Sorry, don't know why the link didn't work:

http://www.visitingpetprogram.org/
posted by lawhound at 1:19 PM on January 3, 2012