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Why CDTA?

CDTA is only one of many excellent therapy dog organizations. A list of these organizations can be seen on the AKC Therapy Dog organization page.

We have set up CDTA to provide the best possible experience for everyone: therapy dog teams, evaluators, and facilities.

The process is streamlined. Also, we are forthcoming with all the details of how to become a therapy dog. This enables therapy dog teams to become evaluated faster, and go out into the world and make a difference faster.

Other organizations have a delay period between the time you request to be a therapy dog team, and the time when you are allowed to take the evaluation. We have designed our processes to have both rigorous checks for quality of the dog and handler, as well as efficiency, avoiding delays for team and evaluator.

Some organizations are not very forthcoming about their rules. You have to get to a certain point in the process to read their guide on what the dog will have to do to complete the evaluation process. This can only be frustrating for those interesting in being a therapy dog team. We have set up this organization to get all the information you need to know on the table, so you can have full knowledge as you move through the process.

In short because CTDA is a good choice of therapy dog organization because:

  1. We optimize for efficient usage of time for both trainer and evaluator

  2. There are no unknown delay periods in the process of becoming a therapy dog.

  3. All the requirements for becoming a therapy dog are publicly visible up front

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