 This article published in the New York Times describes the health benefits of owning a pet. Many of those benefits carry over into a setting of reading with animals.
Read the article Exploring the Health Benefits of Pets  Originally published in the June 2007 issue of Edutopia magazine.
"I started going to a library on Saturdays where the kids would come to read to dogs," Bishop says. "As soon as I brought my dogs around, they just lit up, and, of course, the kids did, too. All these parents began coming up to me and telling me how their kids had been such hesitant readers until they started in the dog program, and how enthusiastic they became. Read the article Gone to the Dogs: Kids Connect with Canine Classmates |
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