Pet Therapy of the Ozarks PTO

15/04/2025

On April 9, 2025, Harry visited folks at The Manor at Elfindale, bringing smiles to residents and staff, representing Pet Therapy of the Ozarks PTO. The Manor always has seasonal decor, puzzles, and friendly folks that make our visits fun. See captions for each image.

12/04/2025

Happy National Pet Day! Share a photo of your favorite buddies with us!

11/04/2025

Shared by OTC! Our great teams providing stress relief and bringing smiles on National Pet Day!

11/04/2025

Rory’s reading buddies pointed out that he looks a lot like Biscuit!

08/04/2025

Upcoming Training Sessions!

It is very important to RSVP for these sessions, as we fill up pretty quickly! Please send RSVP to Vicki at [email protected].

03/04/2025

Bruce passed his PTO workshop in February 2024 and passed his PTO evaluation in March of 2024. He's been bringing smiles with Jodie for about a year now. We are so fortunate to have this grrrreat team in Pet Therapy of the Ozarks.

01/04/2025

How darling is sweet Romeo?! Thank you, Kathleen, for sharing your very special boy so generously.

31/03/2025

On March 24, 2025, Hemi and Deb had a grrreat visit at Disney Elementary. One of the boys made up a song and sang it to Hemi. The boy said it was the best day of his life! Since Hemi is so musically inclined, he did some extra tail wags in appreciation!

31/03/2025

Josie listened patiently as students read to her at Field and Disney elementary schools last week! It’s a ruff job, but somebody has to do it! Thanks for being her partner and driver, Ann!

25/03/2025

From Deb Weber Myrick:

Another fun visit to Disney Elementary with Hemi!

21/03/2025

Marj and Denali brought many smiles to the folks at Here are NorthPark Village on March 7, 2025. Thank you, Marj, for generously sharing sweet Denali in this way!

21/03/2025

We had a bunch of great teams go through our evaluation process on March 15, 2025! Next steps are supervised visits, and then graduation!

We are already looking ahead to our next workshop in August, and evaluation session in September! If you think you might be interested in becoming a future pet therapy team, stay tuned for our upcoming free training days!

18/03/2025

13/03/2025

Pet Therapy of the Ozarks PALS (Pets as Listeners) teams Finn and Jasper were such good boys on March 11, 2025, at Library Center. Thank you Ann and Cindy, for taking these boys to their PALS appointments so they can bring smiles to kids, parents, and library staff.

12/03/2025

Tonight Pet Therapy of the Ozarks was awarded as the Community Partner of the Year by the Johnny Morris Foundation for our volunteer work at Wonders of Wildlife National Museum and Aquarium as well as Dogwood Canyon Nature Park. We are deeply moved by this honor and would like to extend our sincere appreciation to the foundation for this meaningful recognition.

We are very proud of our teams that make a positive contribution to our community. We appreciate all who have furthered our mission of bringing smiles and joy to the faces of patients, staff, families, friends and groups in nursing homes, hospitals, schools and other facilities in our community by certifying and supporting loving pet therapy teams.

08/03/2025

We had a grrreat turnout for our workshop on Feb. 15, 2025, with a good number of teams and a nice group of volunteers as well! Pet Therapy of the Ozarks offers these workshops twice a year, in February and August, to help teams prepare for the pet therapy evaluations held in March and September. The workshop is basically a dry run of the evaluation, to give teams a chance to become more confident in their preparation for the test the following month. Enjoy these images featuring some of our pawticipants!

Our next test is coming up soon -- March 15! Good luck to all teams that will be testing. Folks who are following this group and are thinking about becoming a pet therapy team with their friendly pooches are invited to come out to volunteer and observe. Message us for de-TAILS!