One of the earliest uses of animal therapy. Baby ducks cheering up a little girl undergoing respiratory therapy for polio in 1956.
Posted Dec 30, 2019, 1:46 PM UTC
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Far from the earliest uses of Animal-Assisted Therapy.
This site claims it goes as far back as the Ancient Greeks ~ 600 B.C.E
Wikipedia though only states the earliest being the 18th century
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Brilliant
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They're tiny, but not tiny units
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Tiny emotional support units perhaps?
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Minimum 17 previous posts:
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do leeches count?
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Here we go again, bringing up my family.
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As someone whos had many baby ducks: this 100% works. Especially when they bob their head under water to clean themselves. Super cute stuff right there.
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Why is this here
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That is super sweet. That little girl looks like she’s been thru some shit.
Hopefully she went on to make a full recovery and is still alive. She would be in her late 60’s so completely plausible.
Polio is some serious shit. Glad we have a vaccine for it now!
Just awful. I was born in 1958 and went to HS with a kid who was born in France, never got the vaccine, and got Polio. His legs were paralyzed but he managed to get around on crutches. It was sad.