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Dr. Andrew Weil Joins Pet Partners' Honorary Board
Pet Partners recently welcomed Dr. Andrew Weil to its Honorary Board. Dr. Weil is the founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine. He is internationally recognized for his work and writings on combining conventional medicine with alternative therapies to promote human healing and wellness.
According to Dr. Weil, “I am pleased to join the Honorary Board of Pet Partners. I have been a dog owner all my life, and I appreciate the therapeutic effect companion animals offer. In my practice, I’ve noted their effectiveness in alleviating depression, anxiety, social isolation, and elevated blood pressure and cholesterol in their owners.” Read more.
Delta Society® Is Now Pet Partners®
Remaining true to our mission ... Updating our name
Through your support of Delta Society, each year one million lives are touched by the comfort and healing of a therapy animal visit. Across the nation, more than 72 million families experience health benefits by interacting with their pets — benefits Delta Society helped establish and continues to promote. When people in need of a service animal have questions, or people with a service animal encounter obstacles, we are here to help.
Delta Society is now named Pet Partners in order to better convey who we are, what we do and how we help people and achieve greater public awareness and reach more people through positive connections with therapy, companion and service animals.
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Sponsorships Available for New Therapy Animal Volunteer Teams
As part of grants received from the Cross Charitable Foundation and the Frank M. & Gertrude R. Doyle Foundation, Pet Partners is offering a limited number of scholarships to new Therapy Animal Teams. Scholarships will be awarded based on financial need, community need, or other special circumstances, and will cover course, evaluation, and registration fees. To be considered, please complete our scholarship application.
In the News
Man's Best Friend: Dog Ownership Proven to Reduce Blood Pressure, Other Health Risks. Tiffany Rider, Long Beach Business Journal, May 22, 2012
Minature Horse Named Sprout Aids Hospital Healing. Cate Terwilliger, Special to the Denver Post, May 4, 2012
Pet Therapy: How Animals and Humans Heal Each Other. Julie Rovner, NPR Morning Edition, March 5, 2012
Dogs Lend a Helpful Woof, Woof. Julie Pfitzinger, Special to the Star Tribune, January 21, 2012
Therapy Dogs Lift Patient Morale at ORMC. Jamie Lampros, Standard-Examiner correspondent, January 18, 2012
Find older articles about the human-animal bond in our
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