A Canadian Press story on the risks of exotic animal-assisted therapy quoted John Tyler Binfet, an education professor at UBC’s Okanagan campus.
Binfet also runs the university’s animal therapy program and said the program involves months of training and vetting for dogs and handlers.
“Taking exotics into a public setting is concerning to me because I work with stable, stable dogs and even with stable dogs you can have some uncertainty and with exotics I can imagine there’s a lot of unpredictable stuff that happens,” Binfet said.
The story appeared on City News, Winnipeg Free Press, News 1130, Metro News and Kelowna Daily Courier.
