{"id":4343,"date":"2009-07-07T13:56:27","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T13:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/publicityhound.com\/blog\/?p=4343"},"modified":"2025-06-05T16:05:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-05T16:05:25","slug":"help-a-farm-promote-therapeutic-benefits-of-petting-animals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/marketing\/help-a-farm-promote-therapeutic-benefits-of-petting-animals\/","title":{"rendered":"Help a farm promote therapeutic benefits of petting animals"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"petting\"Cathy Watson of Bostic, N.C., writes:<\/p>\n

“I am trying to get traffic to my website\u00a0and teach people the therapeutic benefits of petting animals.<\/p>\n

“I’m also trying to sell farm tours for $5 a person and spread this message: Please educate yourself BEFORE you get that cute puppy, kitty or piggy.<\/p>\n

“I can’t take my animals on the road for a demonstration.\u00a0 But if I can get people to come to my farm, I can show them how animals should be cared for.\u00a0 I don’t like the term ‘petting zoo’ because that usually means animals that are forced to participate.<\/p>\n

“When you come here, the animals are in their natural environment and come to you because they want to.\u00a0 I have been unsuccessful trying to offer free animal education to the public schools.\u00a0 I live between Asheville and Charlotte and the local economy is the worst in the state.\u00a0 I’ve had TV coverage in Asheville, but with no success to show for it.<\/p>\n

“Can your Hounds suggest ideas on how I generate traffic to my website and get visitors to my farm?”\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Cathy Watson of Bostic, N.C., writes: “I am trying to get traffic to my website\u00a0and teach people the therapeutic benefits of petting animals. “I’m also trying to sell farm tours for $5 a person and spread this message: Please educate yourself BEFORE you get that cute puppy, kitty or piggy. “I can’t take my animals\u2026 Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","iawp_total_views":6,"wds_primary_category":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[34],"class_list":{"0":"post-4343","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-marketing","7":"tag-help-this-hound","8":"entry"},"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Joan Stewart","author_link":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/author\/jstewart\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42066,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4343\/revisions\/42066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/purelysupp.com\/publicity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}