If you ever thought about becoming a pet therapist, this article is for you. It tells you what is the pet therapist job. What are some benefits of doing pet therapy with clients and some risks. Who should have access to pet therapist and what animals we can use in order to reach our goal. It can help anyone who wants to go into this field.
We can choose which animals we want to work with. We can have to work evenings and weekends.
We help people that have health issues and mental illness to recover form them and learn to live with them if they are permanent.
We go to different places where a different person have asked for us to come, it can be an hour or more at a time depending on the schedule, or we can stay in the same building but have different people to meet with our animals.
We can work in hospital, in residence for elderly people and even in school. We can work everywhere there is people that could need our assistance.
You can do a technique in social work followed by a certificate of college studies in zootherapy. Or, you can go to the zootherapy institute of Quebec at the age of twenty.
A pet therapist can charge seventy to ninety dollars hourly. If we were to do eight hours a day, it would add up to 560 dollars or 720 dollars, if we calculate the least and the most we can ask hourly.
We need additional training for our animals so that they are, adequately, train to come into building with us.
Some danger of being a pet therapist is that animal even train can be unpredictable. We need to keep a sterile environment for the people that are allergic. If something doesn't go as plan, we could be sued. For example, if the dog bites someone or if, we forget to sterilize like we should, and it causes an allergic reaction. We could lose our licence.
There is no chance that pet therapist will be replaced by robots because it is about the effects that animals and the human handling it has on the life of people. Robots, can't bring the same feelings and benefits that animals can.
Normally, people in Quebec retired around the age of sixty-five years old, but we can always work more years if we are able and want to. We could also retire when we have thirty-five years of experiences.
Right now, I am still at school in the technique of social work but when I finished the technique, I will go to the zootherapy institute of Quebec. One of my goals, is to have my own company of pet therapy. What is one of your goals about your future field of work?
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