Au bout du Museau
For the past 16 years, Au bout du Museau has been a leading reference in pet therapy in Quebec.
We work with a seasoned team, carefully trained animal partners, and a close-knit network of educators, teachers, clinicians, and researchers. Our services are designed to respond concretely to real-life contexts: schools, healthcare settings, libraries, youth centers, long-term care facilities, universities, colleges, and specialized institutions. Every intervention is carried out with rigor, sensitivity, and a deep grounding in the actual needs of each community we serve.
Our expertise
School-Based Follow-Ups – Individual and Group
Many schools and specialized classrooms entrust us with their students, either individually or in small groups.
Our services are seamlessly integrated into educational projects, intervention plans, and the everyday reality of school environments.
Our approach is recognized for its effectiveness, consistency, and close collaboration with school teams.
SERVICES
Pet Therapy – Language
For children with speech delays, verbal dyspraxia, language disorders, or developmental challenges, pet therapy becomes a powerful lever for motivation.
The animal supports expression, engagement, and consistency in follow-ups, leading to meaningful results delivered with gentleness and joy. Our services provide a concrete response to the long waiting lists that have burdened Quebec for far too many years.
SERVICES
Pet Therapy – Early Stimulation and Development
In small groups, our stimulation sessions are designed for children experiencing global developmental delays.
Through the Greenspan approach, play-based therapy, and the sensitive presence of animal partners, children are gently guided into connection, developing their social, emotional, and sensory skills at their own pace.
PROGRAM
Grow, Play, Feel: A Summer Designed for Them (Ages 0–5)
Created for childcare centers, preschools, and daycare environments, this summer program for holistic development is grounded in the Ballon framework and in our solid expertise in early childhood development.
Over the course of seven weeks, children progressively explore seven essential spheres — emotional, social, cognitive, language, motor, sensory, and relational — through immersive pet therapy activities.
Each session becomes a joyful and meaningful learning opportunity, adapted to their age, pace, and personality.
A gentle, playful, and structured approach that supports the educational mission of your teams while nurturing curiosity, attachment, and emotional intelligence from the very first years of life.
PROGRAM
Pet Reading
A flagship program created for schools, public libraries, bookstores, and audiences of all ages.
Each workshop weaves together original stories, animal interaction, and imagination.
Through sensory and motor pathways, tailored storytelling, gentle contact, and playful challenges, children — including those facing daily challenges — rediscover joy and reconciliation with reading.
We have been an official provider for the City of Montreal for over ten years.
SERVICES
Seniors – Reminiscence and Dementia
For more than ten years, we have been developing our expertise in aging, cognitive decline, behavioral disorders, and Alzheimer’s disease.
In partnership with physicians, researchers, and healthcare institutions, we have co-developed innovative approaches:
Snoezelen rooms and cognitive decline
Pet therapy and memory
Music, touch, and dementia
Today, we are official partners in several research projects and intervention practices.
SERVICE
Pet Therapy in the Workplace
What if workplace well-being also meant reconnecting with the living?
Our corporate pet therapy interventions create a space for reconnection, calm, and presence — at the very heart of your teams.
In times of overload, chronic stress, or organizational change, welcoming a pet therapist and their animal partner is a choice to foster a culture of care, prevention, and humanity.
A different kind of breath within your walls — a reminder that caring for others begins with caring for those who bring the company to life.
ACTIVITIES
Team Building — Genuine and Different
What if we let go of forced role-playing games?
Our team-building activities are rooted in reality, sensitivity, and authenticity. The presence of animals opens a precious space: it allows people to connect differently, without masks or defensive postures.
Each intervention is tailor-made, designed around the concrete reality of your team, your current challenges, and the unique culture of your company.
Building lasting connections, rebuilding trust, rekindling collective momentum — all of this becomes possible, provided we dare to make room for what is true.
SERVICES
Pet Therapy During Exam Periods
We offer a turnkey service for colleges and universities.
During exam sessions, back-to-school periods, or midterms, group pet therapy sessions allow students to:
Reduce stress and performance anxiety
Build connections with their peers
Slow down and find calm, even if just for a moment
The benefits are tangible and almost immediate. Thanks to our mobile infrastructures, this service is easy to implement within your institution.
PROGRAM
Elementary-to-High School Transition
The move to high school is often a time of imbalance, as young people face numerous challenges.
Our pet therapy program serves as both a safety net for integration and a pathway to empowerment, especially for at-risk youth.
Objectives:
Developing stress management strategies
Establishing internal reference points and personalized tools
Enhancing self-awareness and building connections with peers
Encouraging help-seeking behaviors and active engagement in their life transition and learning
PROGRAM
Pediatric Psychiatry and Challenging Behaviors
In close collaboration with clinical teams, social services, and youth protection agencies (DPJ), we intervene with young individuals exhibiting high-risk behaviors or facing challenges in pediatric psychiatry.
Our programs are co-developed with field professionals to ensure they are truly adapted, sensitive, and effective.
Our Animal Partners
Our team includes dogs, cats, hedgehogs, guinea pigs, chinchillas, doves, hens, a mini pig, miniature horses, rabbits, and birds — all rigorously trained and evaluated according to precise protocols.
Vaccinated, monitored, and selected based on the needs of each intervention, they are far more than animals: they are true therapeutic partners.
Each animal is chosen for its relational strengths, its specific affinities with the clientele, and its natural capacity for engagement.
We hold the required professional affiliations and carry the necessary professional insurance to ensure an ethical and rigorous practice of pet therapy.
Want to make sure our services are a good fit for your center or your clients?
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Book a 20-minute discovery call.