Paw Pause

15/12/2025

Ed with Santa

12/12/2025

This is why we exist!❤️🐾

Dogs in School: How they create safety and motivation in the learning environment. A research-informed perspective on the role of dogs in modern classrooms

“Across many countries, schools are increasingly integrating school dogs and animal-assisted services into their learning environments. This is not just about well-being; it is about strengthening learning, motivation and social safety. When a dog enters the classroom, something immediate happens shoulders drop, focus sharpens, and the relationships between children and adults soften and become warmer.”

You can read more here:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10813843/

09/12/2025

END OF YEAR

Wishing everyone in the Paw Pause community a very happy Christmas and New Year. We hope you enjoy a lovely break and our teams are looking forward to seeing you again in 2026!

The privilege of getting to work alongside you and your students isn’t one we take for granted. Every Paw Pause session is an opportunity to support students to grow in confidence, strengthen resilience and feel more like they belong at school - all steps towards their success at school and beyond. Every student belongs and deserves to feel like school is a safe place and we feel so fortunate to play a small part in this process!

Thank you for welcoming us into your schools and your classrooms. We understand how much is on your plates as teachers, wellbeing staff and in leadership and we thank you for allowing us to assist in your students’ success.

To the support coordinators who take the time to understand our work and champion what we do as allied health professionals using our trained therapy dogs - thank you. Paw Pause is unique and special and, best of all, it works - it gets positive results for your clients and ours. Thank you for believing in us.

While we’re not in the classrooms, I’m here over summer and available via email for any questions or last-minute bookings (subject to availability).

27/11/2025

🐾

Animal-assisted services are not a bring your pet to work scheme. All animals must be assessed as suitable:
1. To ensure they are not showing signs of stress in the environment they are being asked to participate in, and
2. To ensure they are safe to interact with the client group, and
3. Meet standards of behaviour relevant for their role.

You can download standards for the animal-assisted services sector here:

https://animaltherapies.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ATL-CoC-Version-5-APRIL25.pdf

27/11/2025

25/11/2025

Animal-assisted services are not a bring your pet to work scheme. All animals must be assessed as suitable:
1. To ensure they are not showing signs of stress in the environment they are being asked to participate in, and
2. To ensure they are safe to interact with the client group, and
3. Meet standards of behaviour relevant for their role.

You can download standards for the animal-assisted services sector here:

https://animaltherapies.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/ATL-CoC-Version-5-APRIL25.pdf

25/11/2025

14/11/2025

11/11/2025

This video is all about what Paw Pause is … and isn’t. We spoke with .au about Paw Pause’s unique mix of allied health professionals and trained therapy dogs to support students succeeding at school. Want to know more? We’ll be at KYDX this Friday and Saturday ready for chats and pats!

09/11/2025

Paw Pause combines the expertise of allied health professionals and their trained therapy dogs to support children and teenagers to thrive in school and beyond.

Working with students where they need the most support - at school - their handler and dog teams seamlessly fit in with the learning environment and support students to build their capacity during their sessions and then draw upon these new skills later on. Paw Pause teams can work with individual students, or schools may choose to engage them to work with small groups or across the campus.

Talk with Paw Pause at the Adelaide Kids & Youth Disability Expo:

📆 Fri 14 & Sat 15 November
📍 Netball SA Stadium, Mile End
🎟️ FREE Entry
🎉 Register for your chance to win $2,000!
💻 KidsYouthDisabilityExpo.com.au