As National Llama Day arrives on December 9, 2025, it’s the perfect moment to recognize an unexpected yet rapidly growing force in the world of emotional healing: llamas. With their calm demeanor, ...

The popular animals with gentle souls have the ability to calm and soothe adults and children with physical, mental or ...

Annie Peters, president and CEO of Pet Partners—a Bellevue, Wash.-based national therapy animal organization focusing on improving human health and well-being through the human-animal bond—traces her ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes. But an increasingly popular alternative is emerging: therapy cats. The term is ...

Animal-assisted therapy (AAT) is a clinical modality in which qualified healthcare providers, acting within their professional scope of practice, leverage the principles of the human-animal bond to ...

Chicken. Did the word make you think of slippery pale pink slab? A roast in your oven? Bar-b-que? Recently, on a trip to Vermont I happened to rent a room overnight in the home of a nurse who had a ...

Margaret Gitter returns to her alma mater, Benedictine University in Lisle, six times a year with some visitors from her backyard barn. Finn, a pony with an Appaloosa-like coat, and Ned, a steady ...

SILVERDALE − Steadily growing out of a wooded village of pens and cottages north of Silverdale is a respite that has been connecting humans and animals for 10 years. One Heart Wild Education Sanctuary ...

In the natural world -- where predators pounce, prey flee, and group members feed and sleep in solidarity -- animal behavior is glorious in its variety. Now, new research suggests there may be an ...

Behavioral therapy is a broad term that refers to several therapeutic techniques to treat mental health disorders. This form of therapy suggests that all behaviors occur due to learning them from ...