Pet Prescription Team

Mar 2023

A lovely team that visits residents at Covenant House California. I'd highly suggest their service dogs! They'd be wonderful at a senior home, assisted living, hospital, or another homeless shelter!

Jul 2018

Pet Prescription Team is a non profit organization of close to 200 volunteers and their professionally trained therapy dog (or cat) who have regularly scheduled appointments to visit those in need of the magic animals freely and eagerly share. Founded over ten years ago and led by an amazing husband and wife team, Krystal and Phil Emery, the impact of this organization continues to grow and expand and is a blessing to both the clients and the participants. I have been part of PPT since 2014 and have trained two dogs through their extensive training program, which trains the owners and the animal, to successfully visit clients. I work with all ages of people, from very young children at the Children's Advocacy Center, high school students struggling with anxiety, depression, and stress, juvenile inmates at Eastlake Juvenile Hall, adults recovering from operations, strokes, and other ailments, and elderly who live in assisted living facilities. This is part of what makes this program so special - the impact these trained dogs and their owner have on all types of people and situations is boundless. The importance of our regularly scheduled visits is easy to quantify when the usually hour long visit is complete. Clients connect, smile, speak, share, laugh, pet and play with my dog, and feel a warmth, connection and compassion that they may not have felt at all that day, that week, or for a very long time. Additionally, I have experienced countless employees at assisted living facilities and staff at high schools, who cherish PPT visits and connect with the animals in much the same way as their clients. The mission of the Pet Prescription Team is actually quite simple, but the delivery is not. Professionally trained volunteers and pets, and a professionally managed program is what makes PPT stand above other animal therapy programs. I am often asked about my "service dog". Ulysses is not a service dog, I explain. He is a trained therapy dog, trained to work with You - the client I am visiting. The impact of PPT continues to grow and this relatively new therapy, utilizing the gifts our animals share with us, continues to expand to venues throughout Southern California.

Jul 2018

This therapeutic group is amazing. I enjoy following all of their events and the comfort and joy that these blessed teams provide to the many lucky recipients of their time. Krystal, keep up the good work and God bless your Team.