Animals in the office?

[gee4]

Popping into this thread rather late but it made me think that if I had a tank of fish within my vision, when I felt a bit stressed or under pressure, I could glance up and watch them for a short time and am certain this would have the desired effect.

And get distracted?

[Owens]

I realize this is an old thread, but I found it interesting because 1) I work in a hospital and we have therapy dogs and, 2) we have laws in the US that people with assistance dogs are permitted anywhere.  More and more people have them, especially military veterans with anxiety issues.  The general public needs to be more accepting of this.  The therapy dogs in the hospital are clean and, in any case, you are in far more danger of germs from a fellow human than from a dog.

[countrigal]

Welcome Owens... and yes, you make a good point.  We are seeing more and more of these therapy dogs and other animals being used for various purposes and the general public does need to be aware of these and more acceptable to them.  In general, I think they are getting there.

Glad to have you in our neighborhood!

[Jackie G]

And of course assistance dogs for those who are disabled through sight or hearing are allowed everywhere here in the UK too.

Good point about the therapy dogs though.  I can understand how useful animals could be in rehabilitating those who have been ill / or are long term ill.