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Therapy & Comfort Dogs terms
Therapy dogs, comfort dogs and facility dogs: the visits, programmes and teams that bring dogs to hospitals, schools, courts and disaster scenes.
Therapy dog A pet that, with its owner, visits hospitals, schools and nursing homes to comfort others; it has no special public-access rights. Emotional support animal An animal that comforts a person with a disability but is not task trained; protected in housing but not given public access under the ADA.