(12 Sep 2021) In response to a request from Tochigi Library in the city of Tochigi, the Tochigi Animal Therapy Association chose from approximately 20 registered dogs belonging to volunteers to begin training. On the importance of reading therapy dogs during the coronavirus pandemic, Hirokazu Kurokawa, the library’s 46-year-old head, said, “It’s not a bad thing…
(13 Jan 2021) Students and staff at the University of Hong Kong are mourning the death of Jasper – the city’s first in-house therapy dog at an institution of higher learning – who passed away at the age of 12 on Sunday. The old English sheepdog was credited with helping hundreds of students in…
(4 March 2018) Jasper, a rescued old English Sheepdog, helped current HKU students and staff experience a better academic life through a new pilot programme launched on December 11, 2017. For six days, seventy-eight current students and staff of the University were able to book a thirty-minute session with Jasper, to play, enjoy his company,…