How To Register A Therapy Goat

They are all registered with the american fainting goat organization who strongly believes the fainting goat breed is a multi purpose breed.

How to register a therapy goat. Any animal can be a therapy animal dog cat horse rabbit pig goat etc enter registration information and select add to cart you can select continue shopping to order a vest and other products. While some facilities will want your animal registered there will also be facilities that don t care. I have 2 goats a 6 year old nigerian dwarf doe named snickerdoodle and a 2 or 3 year old pygmy goat wether named jimmy. These animals have. Prices generally run around 1 000 per goat.

My dad won t let me let them indoors except for our barn and their skin is too thick for spray bottle training i think. While the draw for family farmers and rural households to hold goat yoga events has been easy to understand the continued expansion of the goat yoga market and. This combination makes a wonderful pet emotional support goat. The national service animal registry is one source when you are looking to register your goat as a therapy animal. I want to train them to be therapy goats.

Dog cats horses pigs rabbits lizards ferrets guinea pigs and goats are just a few examples of animals that add value to their communities. Therapy goats need to be friendly and enjoy human contact. After all any animal that can bring a smile to the face of a child sexual abuse survivor or an elderly man dying in hospice is an animal worth promoting. As the benefits of therapy animals are becoming better understood and more widely used therapy goats are poised to become important contenders in improving mental and physical health. I raise fainting goats at my farm in east texas.

Cats rabbits and guinea pigs are in high demand at nursing homes senior centers schools hospitals and other places where therapy animals help make a difference in people s lives. If you are a family with a special needs child or senior or if you will provide animal assisted therapy with your pet goat we may discount our published price for a qualifying situation. Nigerian dwarf goats are smaller more playful and have a soft fuzzy coat. We call our farm playful acres. Aat goats are hand raised over an extended period of time and command a higher price than some of our other goats.

Alpine goats have a very serene unperturbable calming personality and silky fur. We started goat yoga and began cross breeding the two to achieve the perfect goat yoga pet therapy goat.