The Peters family in Colorado Springs has launched an appeal on Colorado Gives Day to raise support for a service dog for their nonverbal son Elliott, whose care requires round‑the‑clock attention. Sunrise Service Dogs says many families remain on waiting lists because demand and costs outpace available resources. Read On…
Through student organizations including Puppy Raisers of the University of Delaware (PRoUD), undergraduates in the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources care for service‑dog puppies—receiving them at eight weeks and raising them until 12 to 14 months before they move on to professional training. Read On…
The Cincinnati Veterinary Medical Association and University of Cincinnati Blue Ash College will hold a free, five-hour health clinic for service dogs on Sunday, Dec. 15, providing preventative care and specialty exams. Read On…
Liberty Dogs, a new service dog training nonprofit in Reno, is recruiting volunteer puppy raisers to care for puppies selected to become service animals for veterans with disabilities. Read On…
Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence for sex trafficking, was transferred last week to a minimum-security prison camp in Texas and is ineligible to participate in a prison puppy‑raising service run by Canine Companions because of the nature of her conviction. Read On…
The Service Dog Training Education Program at Louisiana State University has five students-raised puppies on campus, part of a partnership with Canine Companions that sends dogs on for professional training. Read On…
The Massachusetts Department of Correction and Canine Companions have expanded a service dog training program at MCI‑Framingham, bringing dogs Hawkeye and Helia into the facility where staff and participants will work with nonprofit partners including NEADS and America's VetDogs. Read On…
Snoopy joined the Goodyear blimp on Oct. 1 for a celebratory flight from Long Beach to Carson with three 10‑week‑old Canine Companions puppies — Niagara, Rhubarb and Pauley — in a sendoff intended to spotlight the nonprofit’s service‑dog training work. Read On…
A House committee approved HF688 to extend housing protections to assistance dogs in training, a move sponsors say will free volunteers from homeowners' association restrictions and help organizations such as Can Do Canines place service dogs. Read On…
The West Palm Beach Healthcare System is operating a five-year PAWS pilot that lets veterans with PTSD train candidate service dogs in an outpatient program designed to build purpose through helping other veterans. Read On…