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By Richard Ashmore and Sophia Phan “Mr Gibbs keeps our daughter alive” Like most little girls her age, Alida Knobloch loves to ride her bike and play in the garden. However, the only way she can do this is to carry an oxygen tank with her at all times, due ...

Our furry, feathered and scaled friends are turning up more and more in therapists’ rooms, aged care facilities and hospitals thanks to their healing powers. The treatment is called animal-assisted therapy, and it involves pets being used to help people who are sick or suffering from depression oranxiety. Overseas, there ...