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Training Detection Dog
June 15, 2020
When Dan and Lisa Williams adopted Shep two years ago, they noticed he had a penchant for sniffing around cars. The New Stanton owners are hoping their 3-year-old Australian cattle dog soon will be using his olfactory skills to recognize people infected with the coronavirus, as part of the new regional Covid-19 K-9 Detection Task […]
Working Dog
June 15, 2020
Work for Iskra, a 10-year-old German shepherd, once included searching vehicles at a checkpoint in Baghdad or patrolling Trump Tower in New York City for explosives as part of the team keeping the then-president-elect safe. These days, the retired military working dog is more focused on searching out scents along park trails in San Antonio […]
Comfort K9 Program
June 15, 2020
Sheriff Troy D. Berry is proud to announce the implementation of a new initiative aimed at helping victims of crime in Charles County: the Comfort K9 Program. This program, which has been in the planning phase for several months, will be aimed at providing emotional support to victims of crime, particularly children. The Comfort K9, […]
Helping Local Veterans
June 15, 2020
Wolfhounds Legacy Corporation is a non-profit that has been working with rescue dogs to train them as service animals for veterans and first responders. They are on a mission to save the lives of both the dogs and people, one dog biscuit at a time. Of course, there’s more to it than a few treats. […]
Hero Dog Awards
June 15, 2020
Celebrated dog trainer Sara Carson and her sidekick Hero are excited to be on the brink of another prestigious honour. The former North Bay resident and finalist on America’s Got Talent says she’s hoping a seven-year dream may soon come true. The 25-year-old now lives in Los Angeles with her husband and fellow dog-trainer John Devine. […]
Guide Dog Group
June 15, 2020
With Chariho schools closed and social-distancing requirements still in place, 14-year-old Gabrielle Macaruso found a constructive way to occupy her spare time: a small, yellow puppy named Citron. Citron (the French word for lemon) is a yellow Labrador retriever who, if she makes it through the tests and training, will eventually become a guide dog […]
Service Dog University
June 15, 2020
Bonnie Bergin recalls taking family trips as a child from her home in Willits to the Bay Area and stopping at the Green Mill Inn restaurant in Penngrove for dinner. Now decades later, she is poised to open a new campus for her service dog training institution on the 10-acre property that she and her […]
Service Dog’s Impact
June 10, 2020
Hawk Ricketts and Tanner had been pals since Hawk was 9. Hawk was just a boy and trapped in his own world then, and Tanner was a newly trained service dog who opened the rest of the world to his very own boy who has a sensory processing disorder. The community paid for Tanner through […]
Paws Giving Independence
June 10, 2020
Paws Giving Independence is a service dog program based in Peoria that trains dogs to help people with various disabilities. During the pandemic, training looks different and PGI is finding new ways for trainers to teach important skills. “There’s still people out there that have disabilities and need these dogs,” said Michelle Yuen, director of […]
Medicine’s Potential For Dogs
June 10, 2020
It’s been a year since Brooklyn-based hair artist and salon owner Chelsey Pickthorn learned that, after having beaten triple-negative breast cancer, an especially aggressive form of the disease, it had returned and spread to other parts of her body. She sought out a new oncologist who – through the use of precision medicine, including sequencing […]
Service Dog Accident
June 10, 2020
Marion Pond at Lion’s Point remains closed as state officials test the water. Ashley Rogers captured video of her German Shepherd, Anita, playing in Marion Pond last Friday. “We played for about two hours,” said Rogers. “She loved splashing in the water and playing with the kids.” The Waupaca County woman describes noticing a sudden […]
Detection Dog
June 10, 2020
When Dan and Lisa Williams adopted Shep two years ago, they noticed he had a penchant for sniffing around cars. The New Stanton owners are hoping their 3-year-old Australian cattle dog soon will be using his olfactory skills to recognize people infected with the coronavirus, as part of the new regional Covid-19 K-9 Detection Task […]
Service Dog Fostered
June 10, 2020
In March, Belmont resident Jane Slavin’s second dervice dog-in-training, Hershey, was placed as a Veteran Service Dog in the Boston area through Canine Companions for Independence (CCI). Slavin’s first CCI puppy, Galya, was placed in 2015 as a Facility dog at Gaylord Specialty Hospital in Connecticut. Eight-week-old Hershey, a Labrador Retriever, arrived in Belmont in […]
Hero Dog Awards
June 10, 2020
Dolly Pawton, a 4-year-old black Labrador Retriever, has been Amy Sherwood’s constant companion ever since Sherwood helped deliver Dolly in her own home. Dolly is also a trained service animal who helps monitor Sherwood’s cardiac health and assists Sherwood in her daily tasks. Dolly is one of three national semifinalists in the service dog category […]
Assistance Dogs Support Kids
June 10, 2020
The last few months have been an emotional roller coaster, but for just a moment imagine what it has been like for children who may have learning disabilities or need additional emotional support. Tailwags and Bookbags is a non-profit organization that is continuing to help children in need by paying it forward with a “pawsome” […]
Guide Dog Teams
June 10, 2020
In this time when so many of our social rituals have changed to accommodate the new rules of a global pandemic, one thing remains a constant: the need to remember to always use your powers of observation and offer a comfortable “physical distance” around a guide dog and his human handler when they are out […]
Veteran Receives Service Dog
June 9, 2020
When Master Sergeant Steven Doty, a U.S. Air Force veteran and Webster University graduate who is now the executive director at Webster’s Hill Air Force Base campus in Utah, arrives at work, his co-workers often make comments such as “he’s a good boy” and “he’s so cute!” But those comments aren’t aimed at Doty, rather, […]
Veteran’s Service Dog
June 9, 2020
The 2006 rocket attack in Afghanistan that severely injured Gretchen Evans represented something of an ending for the U.S. Army command sergeant major, who awoke to be informed by a medic’s message on a dry erase board that she’d permanently lost her hearing. But the tragedy also marked a new beginning for Evans, a woman […]
Adorable New Recruits
June 9, 2020
A pair of Golden Retriever Puppies took oath on Monday to serve as therapy dogs for the Hanford Fire Department. They dressed the part, donning tiny firefighter outfits and hats at Hanford City Hall. California Service Dog Academy, based in Visalia, provided the dogs to Station Number One. The non-profit raises, trains, and assigns service […]
Future Service Dogs
June 9, 2020
Canine For Independence is a nonprofit that provides people with disabilities with highly trained assistance dogs. Just last week, the organization took to Instagram to highlight some of its awesome work: volunteer pilots flew 29 puppies across the country to their volunteer puppy raisers. The furry animals will become assistance dogs for folks with disabilities. […]
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