Ladies with Leashes consistently strives to provide a new level of training, support, and deployment of therapy teams, focusing on canine behavior and human training.  Unlike other programs, the goal is to train animal/handler teams, focusing on canine behavior and human dynamics via classes, shadowing, and mentoring with the guidance of Counselors, Medical Experts, Child Care Specialists, and Social Service Advisors to fulfill and assist those programs, and courses of treatment, that would benefit from a Canine Therapeutic Service.   We are pleased to welcome you to our webhome and welcome any comments or suggestions you may have.

Our understanding that interacting with animals can benefit our health and wellbeing in many ways is rapidly growing.  Since their earliest beginnings, dogs and people have worked together and dogs’ innate desire to please, readiness to learn, and sociability make them excellent therapy partners who help people connect and bring comfort and pleasure in a wide range of settings.  These include: crisis response; retirement, assisted living, and skilled nursing facilities; hospitals, especially pediatrics, orthopedics, rehabilitation medicine, psychiatric services, geriatrics; hospice; schools; and residences for people living with mental and emotional illness.