Rona,
I do not see anything wrong on the pictures. I brought recently several dog magazines from Czech republic, at least in two of them are articles about canistherapy, including similar photos, that Ela just posted. Those dog magazines are national, so really many people can see the photos. And both the journalist and the canistherapeuts do not see anything bad on printing them publicly.
You can´t just take a child, put him on the ground and a dog under his legs. Yes, everyone who reads a bit about canistherapy and dogs as such will know, that warming the childs body using the dog helps to ease the spasm of the sick child. But that does not mean, that everyone can do it and every dog can be used.
As a journalist myself, I visited once canistherapeut society called Pomocne tlapky in order to write article about them. I was shown how the dogs are trained, what they can do, I was invited to different events. And I was shown and offered and e-mailed many photos, such as the one´s Ela posted. Why? To print them out in our newspapers and show how the dogs are helping.
Website of Pomocne tlapky (Helping paws) can be seen here:
http://www.pomocnetlapky.cz/english/index.html
And on their site you can also find photos such as Ela posted. For example here:
http://www.pomocnetlapky.cz/asistenc...nka1/arin1.htm
Maybe in Czech republic people have different view on this topic. But I really do not see anything wrong on the photos, neither on the fact that Ela posted them. I think Ela is doing great job and cross my fingers for her to continue well with both her dogs.