“…For patients hospitalized in the inpatient sector, one of the biggest complaints is pain, but when performing the application of Animal Assisted Therapy large and small serve as a new resource for the hospital environment. The participating coterapeutas do the activities to the reduction of self-reported pain, in addition to improving emotional aspects of hospitalization, focusing on closeness, play, promoting wellbeing, reducing tension and increment in mood, being pointed as something unique and positive that brings benefits and a possible activity in the hospital Pereira et al, 2017;Aguiar, 2018;Lima, Leotty & Furlanetto, 2020) The clientele promotes bonding through touch and affection that correlates to the development of the specific activities of each assisted such as decreased hospital stress, better social interaction, motricity, and cognition, which can prevent bed confinement syndrome (Lima et al, 2018;Teixeira, 2015;Araújo & Lima, 2018).…”