Best Practices
Pet Therapy
Dog Breeds
Food
Richmond
100

This style of walking with your dog ensures that the dog is not pulling and that no damage can be done to them.

Loose-Leash Walking

100

The goal of this is to improve a patient's social, emotional, or cognitive functioning.

Animal-Assisted Intervention or Pet Therapy

100

Nick Carter, one of the most famous of this breed, was able to follow a trail more than 100 hours old.

Bloodhound

100

Chocolate comes from the cacao bean, which grows on trees in this continent.

South America

100

This is the name of the 100-acre public park in Richmond that contains a namesake mansion and an arboretum amongst other attractions.

Maymont

200

It is always important to look for this when entering any patient room. 

Contact Precautions Sign

200

This is an endorphin, or "feel good" hormone brought about by AAI. 

Dopamine/Oxytocin

200

This dog, of which there are more than 20 breeds, takes its name from the Latin word for "earth."

Terrier

200

This is the most popular ice cream flavor in America.

Vanilla

200

The Shockoe Bottom neighborhood of Richmond, VA, is home to a museum dedicated to what 19th century American author?

Edgar Allan Poe

300

This substance is utilized before and after any interaction with your dog.

Hand Sanitizer

300

This animal is on the list of animals that Pet Partners will register. It's species name is Lama glama. 

Lamas

300

John Steinbeck really went on "Travels with Charley"; Charley, or Charles le Chien, was this breed of dog.

Poodle

300

When Coca-Cola was first produced, it was this color.

Green

300

In 1779, the Virginia State Capitol was moved to Richmond. This city was where it resided prior to the move. 

Williamsburg

400

This must be placed below your dog if they are getting up on a chair, in a patient's lap, or in the patient's bed. 

A Barrier

400

This diet is against most therapy dog organization policies.

Raw Meat Diet

400

Welsh for "dwarf dog," this herding dog was first raised in Cardigan, Wales.

Corgi

400

This vegetable is never processed, frozen, cooked, or preserved.

Lettuce
400

Chesterfield County is linked to its “sister” city Gravesham in Kent, England by which historical figure who lived in both locations and inspired a Disney movie?

Pocahontas

500

While pediatric teams are shadowed to visit children in the hospital, even these teams cannot visit patients younger than this age.

3 Years Old

500
Beacon, the therapy dog at the Olympics this year, was this breed of dog.

Golden Retriever

500

The Saint Bernard rescues men from mountains; the Newfoundland rescues men from this.

The Sea

500

This country is the second largest fast food market after the United States.

China

500

In 1935, Richmond was the debut spot for the canned version of what alcohol preferred by Homer Simpson?

Beer