{"id":11555,"date":"2022-10-02T07:36:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-02T07:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/10\/02\/our-therapy-lizard-keeps-us-really-chilled\/"},"modified":"2022-10-02T07:36:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-02T07:36:53","slug":"our-therapy-lizard-keeps-us-really-chilled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=11555","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Our therapy lizard keeps us really chilled&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A disability charity has said a tegu lizard it has introduced during therapy sessions is already having a calming effect on people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Disability Support, based in Nottingham, say the lizard, called Taz, is helping people who use services at its community centre in Old Basford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Services manager Charlotte Throssel, said: &#8220;When they get their courage up to stroke him you can see everything just slow and relax instantly.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Reporter: Rob Rose, video journalist: Chris Waring<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Follow BBC East Midlands on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bbceastmids\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bbcemt\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, or on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbceastmidlands\/\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">. Send your story ideas to <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/mailto:eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk\" class=\"ssrcss-k17ofw-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">eastmidsnews@bbc.co.uk<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-nottinghamshire-62981085?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A disability charity has said a tegu lizard it has introduced during therapy sessions is already having a calming effect on people. Disability Support, based in Nottingham, say the &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11556,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}