I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean. How do you train a dog to be a therapy dog for another animal?
These dogs are companion animals for the cheetahs. They grow up together, and share a strong bond because they think of themselves as litter mates. They end up well trained, sure, because they live around staff at zoos who are professional animal handlers, but the relationship between the animals is pretty much the same as two puppies or two cheetahs that were raised together; if you adopted two puppies from different litters the same week, and raised them together, would you think of one of them as a therapy dog for the other?
Who’s to say who’s getting supported if you get to play with baby cheetahs?
I believe the puppy eventually goes through training to be a therapy dog. similar to a therapy dog for humans.
I’m not sure what this is supposed to mean. How do you train a dog to be a therapy dog for another animal?
These dogs are companion animals for the cheetahs. They grow up together, and share a strong bond because they think of themselves as litter mates. They end up well trained, sure, because they live around staff at zoos who are professional animal handlers, but the relationship between the animals is pretty much the same as two puppies or two cheetahs that were raised together; if you adopted two puppies from different litters the same week, and raised them together, would you think of one of them as a therapy dog for the other?