Suitability and Health Requirements
Name 3 conditions that would prevent an animal from attending the evaluation.
What is open wounds or sores, skin rashes, vomiting, eye infections, extreme hair shedding, diarrhea, runny nose, stitches, frequent urination, odd smelling ears or breath, or chronic illness?
What farm animals are not allowed in the Pet Partners Therapy Animal Program?
What is a chicken, duck, and goat?
Which of the following exercises is part of the Pet Partners Handler-Animal Team Evaluation? Say hello, supervised separation, two-fingered tap, and group sit/stay.
What is two-fingered tap.
What is not provided by the pet's handler for the Pet Partner Evaluation?
What is a PPST/PPAT evaluation Form?
Animals must be at least 6 months old to be evaluated.
What is false?
Doing this will result in a Not Ready Score.
What is jumping up, demonstrating excessive stress, unclean, eliminating during testing, vocalizing excessively, handler inappropriately dressed.
Animals less than ____ weeks do not have fully developed immune systems.
What is 12 weeks?
Name 2 people qualified to conduct an evaluation in the event that a licensed Pet Partner evaluator is not available.
What is veterinarian or animal behavior specialist.
Which of the following is not part of the Therapy Dogs International Testing Requirements? Getting around people, group sit/stay, acclimation to distraction, and visiting a patient.
What is acclimation to distraction?
Dogs and cats must be spayed and neutered before working as a therapy animal.
What is false?
Animals must be free of what 3 internal and external parasites?
What is fleas, ear mites, lice, ticks, and intestinal parasites?
Which of the following is not an acceptable animal species to be evaluated as a potential animal for the Pet Partners Program?
What is a ferret?
Which is not on the Pet Partners Evaluation Checklist, that is, what the handler must bring to the Pet Partners Handler-Animal Team Evaluation?
What is enough treats for the use for the length of the evaluation?
This is not a part of the American kennel Club Canine God Citizen Test.
What is Reaction to Attraction?
Strollers, carts and wagons for carrying the animal are allowed to be pulled and pushed by the handler.
What is false?
What core characteristics are critical for your animal to have in the Therapy Animal Program?
What is Reliable, Predictable, and Controllable?
What is the minimum age requirement for animals except for pocket pets attending evaluation for the Pet Partners Therapy Program?
What is 1 year for pocket pets and 6 months for rabbits, guinea pigs and rats?
The two parts of the Pet Partners Handler-Animal Team Evaluation are named?
What is Pet Partners Skills Test and Pet Partners Aptitude Test?
Dogs who eat raw protein
What is the type of animal not allowed to participate as a therapy animal in the Pet Partners Program?
A dog left with a person other than its handler for a minute should not whine.
What is false?
Describe the desirable behaviors to display during the team evaluation and while visiting?
What is appropriate body language, interacting with clients, connection with handler, and responding to cues from their handler?
What kind of food is unacceptable for an animal to eat in the Pet Partner Therapy Program?
What is raw proteins?
Which of the following is not true regarding a Pet Partners Handler-Animal Team Evaluation? Dog Leashes used by the handler must be no longer than 6 feet, the handler is not required to present rabies tags to the evaluator, multiple cues from the handler to the animal are not allowed, and a handler-animal team evaluation rating of "Complex" is not more valuable than a rating of "Predictable".
What is multiple cues from the handler to the animal are not allowed?
DAILY DOUBLE: What are all of the tests for Pet therapy?
What is American Kennel Club: Canine Citizen Test, Therapy Dogs International Testing, Pet Partners: Handler-Animal Team Evaluation, and the Pet Partners Skills and Aptitude Test?
Sit on Command is Exercise 8 in the PPSAT
What is True?