Therapy Dog Volunteers

Is your dog friendly, gentle, well-mannered and extremely socially motivated? If so, you & your dog may work together to touch the lives of those in need by being a Warm Hearts team!
The Warm Hearts Network is a group of trained volunteers & their dogs who provide Animal Assisted Activities & volunteer visiting teams in our community. Human-animal teams are screened, evaluated & then registered to visit healthcare facilities, schools, senior living & activity centers, hospice & other locations.
​Your dog must:

• Be two years or older
• Have been a part of your family for 6 months or more
• Display exceptional behavior & social personality traits
• Be extraordinarily tolerant & well behaved in new environments
• Know basic Obedience skills including sit, down, stay, come & heel & be able to perform them in distracting environments
• Beginner, Intermediate, & Advanced Training certificates from an acredited training program is recommended but not mandatory.
• Veterinary Screening

Frequently, the Warm Hearts Network identifies adoptable shelter dogs as potential Warm Hearts team candidates. These dogs have been evaluated through an assessment testing & would be wonderful additions to the program as well as great family dogs. 
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For more information, contact
Paula Willis at [email protected]
​Judith Bissett at [email protected]

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