What made you decide to get Rojo certified for Animal-Assisted Therapy?
We have known almost since we first got him that Rojo was “different” from many other llamas we have been around. After being involved with 4-H a number of years, and attending many fairs, shows, and parades where llamas are brought into very close contact with large crowds of people, Rojo just stood apart in his enjoyment of this interaction. Every time we took him out, he was almost immediately surrounded by people, especially children, wanting to pet him, asking questions about llamas, and telling us that he was the most beautiful, and gentle, llama they had ever seen!A few years ago, when we were at the fair, someone passing through our llama area suggested that we get Rojo “certified” as a “therapy animal”. (I had thought about taking Rojo into adult-care facilities, and schools before, and had actually taken him to a couple of schools with our 4-H leader, but was concerned about insurance issues should we take him off the farm by ourselves. Certification, she told me, would allow
