Upcoming Events
2024 Team Evaluations
Therapy Animal Handler Workshop and Team Evaluation dates will appear on the Pet Partners Volunteer Center calendar and go live for registration approximately 30 days prior to the event date. If you do not have a Volunteer Center account, click here to create one.
Our workshop and evaluation venues rotate between Davidson, Sumner, and Williamson Counties, and the city will be noted on the Volunteer Center calendar. Dates are tentative and require at least 4 people to sign up for event to proceed.
Team Evaluation 2024 Dates
May 11 at Gallatin Library
June 22 at Gunner, Inc, South Nashville, off Linbar Dr.
August 24 at Brookmeade Congregational Church, Bresslyn Rd., Nashville
September 14 at Gallatin Library
October 19 at Gunner, Inc, South Nashville, off Linbar Dr.
November 16 at Brookmeade Congregational Church, Bresslyn Rd., Nashville
To register, sign into your Volunteer Center account and click on "Courses and Events" to follow registration prompts. Remember the MCPP Team Evaluation dates will not post on the calendar until approximately 30 days prior to the evaluation date.
After you have registered, approximately one week prior to the evaluation, the Evaluator will contact you to confirm a testing time.
Plan for approximately 45 minutes to check in and complete the evaluation.
The test fee is $20 payable by cash or check on the date of your evaluation.
Therapy Animal Training
Pet Partners only provides training for the handler and does not provide animal obedience training; however, there are a number of individual and group trainers in the Middle Tennessee area who can assist you with your pet training needs. Additionally, Pet Partners collaborated with PetSmart to offer a 6-week Therapy Dog Training class that is available nationwide. For dogs, in addition to an outgoing personality and interest in meeting new people, the key skills to be a therapy animal are similar to those necessary for the AKC's Canine Good Citizen (CGC) test; however, the CGC is not required to become a Pet Partners team. For other species such as cats, birds, guinea pigs, rabbits, domestic rats, mini pigs, equines, llamas and alpacas, Pet Partners offers additional information and webinars about necessary obedience skills on their website.
Upcoming Therapy Dog Preparation Classes
PetSmart offers a therapy dog preparation class created in partnership with Pet Partners.
Contact your local PetSmart for more information.
For more information about how to become a registered Pet Partners therapy animal handler, click here.