Working Animals

Office of Animal Welfare


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Working Animals

Working animal initiatives will encompass assistance animals, therapy animals, and carriage horses. The Office's priorities for working animals include:

Improving service delivery to people with assistance animals.

Promoting therapeutic programs for vulnerable and underserved populations who can benefit from the human-animal bond.

Facilitating better enforcement of existing laws that protect carriage horses.