Give Your Cat a Job

Is your cat a candidate for animal-assisted therapy? Several organizations use cats and other animals to help improve the lives of health-care patients.

By Sandy Robins | Posted: Tue Jun 28 00:00:00 PDT 2005

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Pursell also registered her other cat, Milo, also a Maine Coon, but said that Seahawk enjoys the visits more.

Both cats are former grand champions [winning show cats], so they are used to riding in the car and being handled by strangers," Pursell said. "This is very important if they are going to enjoy visiting people in health-care facilities.

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Janet    Bethlehem, PA

1/13/2013 10:02:46 AM

good article, thank you

janet    bethlehem, PA

9/28/2011 4:17:18 AM

excellent idea!

Bobbie Jo    ghent, NY

4/4/2011 4:06:06 PM

I think this is great

Martha    Dawsonville, GA

12/15/2010 12:22:53 PM

I would love to be able to do this but no pet therapy groups in my area have cats! Would love to read more about cats doing this, and training them to do this work!

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