Animal Assisted Therapy Quotes

At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back.

I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse.

Dogs are one of those things that make you happy and make you wonder.

I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

It's very good for you, riding. Every model is like, "I do yoga." I find horses have the same effect, in that you have to put your ego aside and concentrate on making the horse do the things you want it to do, and move in the way you want it to move. So you have to use your body to help this horse do incredibly difficult movements that don't come naturally to it. And if something goes wrong, it's not the horse's fault; it's always your fault. So you have to be quite levelheaded. And then the whole nature aspect of it is very calming.

Working with horses has taught me how to ground myself in my body when I feel panicky.

My first paid job was leading pony rides along Minehead seafront when I was eight. I probably got paid sixpence - not much but I loved horses and it gave me a great chance to be near them.

People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.

Animals have always been therapeutic for me to work with; they help me get me grounded from being on the road.

Generally speaking, our prisoners were capable of loving animals, and if they had been allowed they would have delighted to rear large numbers of domestic animals and birds in the prison. And I wonder what other activity could better have softened and refined their harsh and brutal natures than this. But it was not allowed. Neither the regulations nor the nature of the prison made it possible.

That we have altered the dog genetically is well understood; it is hardly known how they changed us.

I think having an animal in your life makes you a better human.

I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night, or a dog of some kind to act pleased when you come in. You ever notice how a hotel room feels so lifeless?

I actually quite like working with kids and I like working with animals, which everybody says you shouldn't do. It makes you feel like you're not acting, as soon as you have someone who's providing stuff to react to.

I write so much because my cat sits on my lap. She purrs so I don't want to get up. She's so much more calming than my husband.

To get rid of depression, I swim with dolphins.

When you feel lousy, puppy therapy is indicated.

I love animals. I love being around them.

For proof that our culture has gone to the dogs, look no further than the bizarrely parental ways many Americans talk about our furry friends.

I've definitely taken a lot of consolation from animals in my life. There have been times when I've been really sad, and they gave solace and comfort and companionability more than a person.

When an eighty-five pound mammal licks your tears away, then tries to sit on your lap, it's hard to feel sad.

I believe that horses bring out the best in us. They judge us not by how we look, what we're wearing or how powerful or rich we are, they judge us in terms of sensitivity, consistency, and patience. They demand standards of behavior and levels of kindness that we, as humans, then strive to maintain.

There's nothing else I would rather do, unless there was a profession that involved cuddling bunny rabbits and kittens all day for money.

Pets are always a great help in times of stress. And in times of starvation too, o'course.

I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment.