Patients reap benefits of pet therapy
A mini petting zoo, featuring an umbrella cockatoo, a giant Flemish rabbit, guinea pigs, a lamb, a goat, and an eight-week-old Jack Russell puppy called Dora, was set up in the garden area at Marymount Hospice in Cork before patients from its respite and palliative care wings were invited outside to meet them.
The patients, who were joined by relatives and staff, spent time holding and petting the animals as Rumley’s Farm animal manager Nicola Copithorne monitored proceedings.
