http://community.advanceweb.com/blogs/ltc_3/archive/2009/06/10/pet-therapy-part-viii-american-veterinary-medical-association-guidelines.aspxThe following is the American Veterinary Medical Association's statement of policy, retrieved from: http://www.avma.org/issues/policy/animal_assisted_guidelines.asp When the AVMA officially recognized, in 1982, that the human animal bond was importantenCommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 61120.2)