Over the last few weeks, I have seen a large number of animal videos on my social media feeds, and questions about how to write video descriptions for animal videos on social media. From penguins wandering around an aquarium to people’s dogs smiling at the…

At the beginning of my sophomore year, I decided that I absolutely wanted to have a betta fish in my college dorm, because I loved fish so much. My friend and I went down to the local pet store and purchased inexpensive tanks, filtered water,…

A couple of weeks ago, I was talking to one of my faculty mentors about their service dog. Some of the topics we discussed included the importance of service dog etiquette and and different types of service dogs. Even though I do not have a…

When I was about five years old, my family took me to a library program where kids could read to certified therapy dogs. This program was designed to spark a love of reading, and also a love of dogs for the children who visited each…

In my time volunteering at a wildlife museum, I observed hundreds of guests visiting the touch tank to learn more about our local undersea wildlife. While I didn’t work in the touch tank exhibit directly because I had difficulty holding horseshoe crabs, I did help…

Learn about service dog etiquette and how to interact with people who use them, featuring Grady the goldendoodle

This week, a news story went viral about a therapy dog reading program in Minnesota. One of the dogs in the program, named Sting, didn’t have anybody read to him at one of the events, so his owner posted a Facebook picture encouraging kids to…

A guide to visiting the New England Aquarium in Boston, with a special focus on guests with vision impairments