{"id":115,"date":"2016-08-24T08:42:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/?p=115"},"modified":"2016-08-24T08:59:50","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T18:59:50","slug":"pets-as-therapy-doge-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/pets-as-therapy-doge-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pets as Therapy &#8212; Doge Therapy&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before my divorce my spouse and I had a precocious female black and tan shiba inu. \u00a0If you&#8217;re familiar at all with the whole doge meme you&#8217;ll have seen the red colored shibas all over the net.<\/p>\n<p>Mahina, our shiba, kept me company as I worked from home most days. She was pretty aloof but she&#8217;d check on me from time to time and that company was a big help when my stress from work would hit peak levels. Mahina stayed with my ex-wife. She was after all her dog and I couldn&#8217;t afford to keep a pet in my current living situation. Having had a pet and then going back to pet-less I can genuinely see how much of a benefit a therapy animal can be for someone. It&#8217;s something my therapist and I have also talked about but laws in our state are a little tricky. If you have the ability to care for a pet and are struggling with depression and anxiety I think it&#8217;s something you should consider. \u00a0Keep in mind laws regarding how to get a dog licensed as a therapy dog vary by where you live. As far as the US is concerned there&#8217;s a very distinct line drawn between therapy\/companion dogs and service dogs (such as seeing eye dogs) who are allowed greater access.<\/p>\n<p>Honestly\u00a0this attached youtube clip is just to show what a black and tan shiba looks like.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u67f4\u72ac\u30b4\u30a8\u30e2\u30f3\u300e\u30a2\u30de\u30be\u30f3\u300f\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zT0jNrJ468Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before my divorce my spouse and I had a precocious female black and tan shiba inu. \u00a0If you&#8217;re familiar at all with the whole doge meme you&#8217;ll have seen the red colored shibas all over the net. Mahina, our shiba, kept me company as I worked from home most days. She was pretty aloof but &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/2016\/08\/24\/pets-as-therapy-doge-therapy\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Pets as Therapy &#8212; Doge Therapy&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-slice","category-depression"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7PG4O-1R","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vraxx.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}