This is something that has been on my mind. My middle son has some behavior issues. We have had doctors say it was ADHD, ODD, and now we are about to go back to the doctors again to try and pin point what is really going on with him.
For the past about 3 months his behavior has gotten worse. Around Christmas or 1st of the year he started telling us and the school he wants a dog around the home. Well I am not really suppose to have pets here so I had to tell him we can't for the moment. And thats when the behavior got worse. Lets put it this way last week a teacher set a note home to me with pictures that she had some puppies (cute ones btw) that she was finding homes for and we could have one. So I was trying to explain to my son why we could not have one. Well my 6 year old son said he was going to kill me (yes he said kill me) over this issue.
Now my question is could a therapy dog really help his problems? IF so what process do I need to go through to find out if this will help him? I do know someone personally with a litter of puppies at the moment. And I was thinking about taking him over there every afternoon (till puppies go to new homes) and see if it helps the problems. If it does not help no harm no foul and he got to be around puppies. But what if it does but things get bad again once the pups go to their new homes.
Can anyone give me some insight.
For the past about 3 months his behavior has gotten worse. Around Christmas or 1st of the year he started telling us and the school he wants a dog around the home. Well I am not really suppose to have pets here so I had to tell him we can't for the moment. And thats when the behavior got worse. Lets put it this way last week a teacher set a note home to me with pictures that she had some puppies (cute ones btw) that she was finding homes for and we could have one. So I was trying to explain to my son why we could not have one. Well my 6 year old son said he was going to kill me (yes he said kill me) over this issue.
Now my question is could a therapy dog really help his problems? IF so what process do I need to go through to find out if this will help him? I do know someone personally with a litter of puppies at the moment. And I was thinking about taking him over there every afternoon (till puppies go to new homes) and see if it helps the problems. If it does not help no harm no foul and he got to be around puppies. But what if it does but things get bad again once the pups go to their new homes.
Can anyone give me some insight.