Background: Animal-assisted therapy is the use of animals in therapeutic environment for healing and rehabilitation patient. This intervention still not widespread; however, clinical practice shows great positive impacts that this treatment promotes process physical mental patients with disabilities.

Although the Five Freedoms paradigm has been very influential in shaping animal welfare thinking for the last two decades, it has two key disadvantages. First, the focus on "freedom" from a range of negative experiences and states has been misunderstood in a number of quarters to mean that complete freedom from these experiences and states is possible, when in fact the best that can be achieved...