Animal-assisted therapy (also known as pet therapy) is one common option for improving participants’ mental – and physical – health. The therapy is popular among people with a wide range of conditions, and cancer patients are especially likely to benefit from the sessions. After knowing their poor prognosis factors, cancer patients often find themselves dealing […]
Another Farmer Story Yesterday was his Saturday to visit the kids at Lancaster Library. He always seems to get extra excited to go there, I think because this visit is a “light” visit, compared with the nursing home. I really think Farmer bears the weight of the nursing home on his shoulders sometimes. It is […]
Sunday with Farmer Just wanted to share a little story with you all about our visit yesterday. I’m not real good at standing up and sharing stories in front of everyone, but now that I have THIS avenue to share…well, you’ll probably all be bored to tears with my stories before too long…LOL! When Farmer […]
That’s One Big Cat! This is one of those stories that you had to have been there. The sight of it was the funny part. The activity director at Popsicle’s facility had a special request for him to visit this particular elderly woman. She loved cats. So the director and I went in to her […]
KPETS is discontinuing our old forum and moving to a blog format. Some of these old post are too great to have disappear. So the next couple posts will be from the ‘archives’. Pee Mail / by Mary Gottfried Murray and I do home visits with 3 Autistic brothers, ages 6, 8, and 12- it’s […]
Touching Lives * Warming Hearts in York College Email from Harriet Hombach ( KPETS Evaluator/Volunteer: “Thanks to all the KPETS teams who did a remarkably, fantastic job at York College last Thursday. If you were not there, you missed lots of fun with YCP staff and students. As you can see from the below email, we have […]
New KPETS Therapy Teams inititated a new program at The Arthur Hufnagel Public Library of Glen Rock, PA. Jenn Irwin along with Hillary and Madilyn Bull and the Arthur Hufnagle Public Librarty created the “Tales of Two Dogs” Program. Or should the be “TAILS” of Two Dogs:) Click here to view the program flyer! and find […]
KPETS team Copper Candy and Nan Hanshaw volunteered in several educational booths during the Farm Show January 7th through 14th. Copper drew the crowds for the Pennsylvania Animal Response Team (PASART) and the Pennsylvania Veterinary Medical Association (PVMA). He worked sereral-hour shifts * for several days and greeted hundreds of children and grown ups. When Copper […]
During their November visit to Abraxas Youth Detention Center at South Mountain in Franklin County, volunteers Donna Gomer with Cullen and Wendi Mitzel with Meeko assisted the teens in making new adoption gift bags for the Adams County SPCA. The gift bags included small bags of treats, a special note from a teen at the […]
On our most recent visit to Luther Acres Gio wanted to take Santa along to cheer the residents. So we pulled out his wagon and harness, put some Christmas lights around Santa, sat him in the wagon, and hitched it up to Gio. Gio pulled it very proudly – you can almost see him saying […]
