Operation Delta Dog opened a new training and enrichment center in Hollis to prepare rescued dogs as service companions for veterans, featuring a classroom for up to 12 Delta Teams and indoor and outdoor enrichment zones. Read On…
Service Dogs, Inc., the Dripping Springs nonprofit, is expanding to train Psychiatric Service Dogs for PTSD, offering the teams free to veterans and other Texans after nearly four decades and work with 1,000 animals. Read On…
Angela and Matt Johnson run Step of Faith K9’s from their home outside Dubuque, training five service dogs for trauma survivors and tailoring work to individual medical and mental-health needs. Read On…
A pair of U.S. military dog tags lost in Bend roughly two decades ago has been reunited with its owner this week after a Bend resident who found them while jogging tracked down the veteran named on the tags. 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…
VA Palo Alto Health Care says specially trained service dogs may accompany individuals with disabilities on VHA property, outlines behavior expectations and notes it does not train 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…
Researchers report that female veterans who trained service dogs for eight weeks showed increased telomere length — a biological marker associated with reduced cellular aging — compared with a control group that showed declines. Read On…
A funding setback at the Rescue 22 Foundation has interrupted placement of service dogs for veterans, a blow that U.S. Marine veteran Kelsey Lainhart says has tangible consequences for those recovering from battlefield injuries. Read On…
In Lockport, N.Y., inmates at the Niagara County Jail are training Mac, a Newfoundland dog, to become a service animal for a soldier as part of WNY Heroes' 'Pawsitive for Heroes' program, which began in 2020 and has expanded to six correctional facilities. Read On…