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Post by valkyriestorm on Jan 20, 2011 22:24:12 GMT -5
Starting my Animal Assisted Therapy classes this Saturday. I will be using my ferret Skunkers. I cant wait. Down the road I will get a dog and use the dog, but for now I cant have a dog so I think it will be a great change to use a ferret. And Skunkers is super nice. Any words of wisdom??
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Post by Jackie on Jan 21, 2011 1:40:37 GMT -5
Wow, that's really awesome! Congrats for Skunkers!
What exactly will he be doing?
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Post by justahannah on Jan 21, 2011 1:49:54 GMT -5
That sounds like a lot of fun....how do you get started with that?
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Post by valkyriestorm on Jan 22, 2011 22:09:34 GMT -5
They have the class at my community college. Its 400 bucks to take it. Its for 12 weeks every Saturday morning.
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Post by Jackie on Jan 22, 2011 22:11:30 GMT -5
Will there be other animals there? I'd just be cautious around bigger dogs and such.
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Post by valkyriestorm on Jan 24, 2011 19:30:07 GMT -5
should be other animals there. I do not take the ferret with me to all the classes, its just towards the end I will have to bring him to get him certified.
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Post by 1 on Jan 24, 2011 20:51:42 GMT -5
I went on a tour at the local hostile and the emergency service stress relief dog is trained not to lick because some people don't like that, any similarity?
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Post by ferretdroogies on Jan 24, 2011 21:12:49 GMT -5
That is so awesome. I thought they didn't allow ferrets to be therapy animals, but they allowed chickens  Anyways, that would be great if you could use Skunkers. He would be a great therapy animal :3 <3 |
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Post by 1 on Jan 24, 2011 22:18:44 GMT -5
That is so awesome. I thought they didn't allow ferrets to be therapy animals, but they allowed chickens Anyways, that would be great if you could use Skunkers. He would be a great therapy animal :3 <3 Realy??? I thought chickens where mean. |
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Post by sherrylynne on Jan 24, 2011 22:37:09 GMT -5
Not mine  I could put them in my arms, cover their heads, rock them, and asleep they would go |
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Post by Darlene on Jan 27, 2011 0:32:57 GMT -5
That's great,should be lots of fun for you both. I wish they had something like that where I live,I think Koby would be good.
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Post by sherrylynne on Jan 27, 2011 1:01:56 GMT -5
Just to give you an idea of the type of therapy a ferret can do for the elderly:  |
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Post by Darlene on Jan 27, 2011 2:28:50 GMT -5
Awww,that's so sweet  |
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Post by sherrylynne on Jan 28, 2011 0:17:02 GMT -5
The patient thought so too She stayed like that(even fell asleep!) for a good 20 minutes! |
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