ElderPet Pet Partner Therapy Animal Program

If you have a well-behaved, well-mannered and socialized pet who loves people and you have time to volunteer, you may want to consider becoming part of the Pet Partners Therapy Animal Program!

ElderPet is a Community Partner of Pet Partners. ElderPet provides the Pet Partners Team Evaluations for owners and their pets (as a team!) for visiting animal programs in hospitals, nursing homes, rehabilitation centers, schools and other facilities. Once completing this process (course and evaluation), having a veterinary evaluation for the pet, and having a backgrpound check, the team is eligible for registration with Pet Partners.

If you are just exploring and want to know a little more, please consider coming to an introductory workshop where you can ask questions. This is for the humans only and there is no cost.

Pet Partners Program Requirements may be found here.  ElderPet recommends strongly that if your prospective therapy animal is a dog, that you and your dog take a basic obedience or AKC CGC class before signing up for an evaluation.

Pet Partners has a deep regard and respect for its therapy animal teams and the important role that they play in meeting the needs of the people they interact with. Pet Partners also has high expectations regarding conduct of its teams. Pet Partners has developed Policies and Procedures that teams must follow.

If you find that you meet the requirements you would then take the On-Line Handler Course.

Register with Pet Partners Volunteer Center

You will need to register through the Pet Partners Volunteer Center for courses and evaluations. First, if you have not already done so, you will need to create a login and password at the Pet Partners website.  Once logged into the volunteer site, you will see the link My Registrations. This will take through the steps to start or renew your registration through a series of steps.

Once you have signed up for the course, you may sign up for an evaluation.  ElderPet offers evaluations in NH but there are other evaluations scheduled in Maine and NH that you can find on the Pet Partners website if our schedule does not meet yours.  (See link above for evaluation schedule).