This week Tayla is joined by Cynthia Vanaudenhove with DJ Pet Therapy program and Cheryl Ficarra, director of Windwalker Humane Coalition. They talk to us about training therapy animals as well as how therapy animals are different from other working animals, like service animals. They also discuss women heroes of WWII, and old movies. During The Last Chapter they discuss: What is your favorite book that features an animal?

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Books
Virtues of Aging by Jimmy Carter
Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt
Wylie’s Wishes by Wylie and Kelsey Patterson
Night Witches: the Untold Story of Soviet Women in Combat by Bruce Myles
Handbook on Animal-Assisted Therapy by Aubrey Fine
Beautiful Invention: a Novel of Hedy Lamarr by Margaret Porter
Charlotte’s Web by E. B. White
Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams and William Nicholson
Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend by Susan Orlean
Because of Winn Dixie by Kate DiCamillo

AV
All Creatures Great and Small (2020- )
Catherine Called Birdie (2022)

Other
Windwalker Professional Pet Assisted Therapy
The School of Continuing Education at Providence College