Where have you taken Rojo to do Animal-Assisted Therapy?
This past year we have focused primarily on visiting senior communities and rehab facilities within the Portland/Vancouver area. Rojo has done a few school visits to educate children about llamas, but the response, and need, for therapy use among seniors has been overwhelming. All of the facilities we have visited have been wonderful, caring, environments, and have welcomed us with open arms. Every time we take Rojo to visit an assisted living community or rehab center, we are blessed more than the residents, as we observe the impact Rojo is making to enrich so many lives. We have seen people that haven’t verbalized or been responsive to other types of therapy treatments in months, attempting to speak, and trying to sit up and reach out to touch Rojo; others that don’t usually want to leave their rooms, eager to come out when they know Rojo is there; tears of joy when we make in-room visits, bringing Rojo right into the “living rooms” and along the bedside, of those who are no longer a
