I gear up with Alaska Wild Guides for a solo snowmobile adventure on a Skidoo Renegade. But the real highlight is visiting “Battle Dogs,” a charity using sled dogs as therapy for military veterans ...
As the old saying goes, you can’t teach an old dog new tricks. But as one organization has shown over the course of five decades, a dog can become a veteran’s new best friend. This past Fourth of July ...
When Joe Moreno, a Navy veteran, panicked and took cover between two cars in a mall parking lot, suddenly transported back to his deployment during the 2003 invasion into Iraq, he knew he had to seek ...
When U.S. Marine veteran Kenny Bass of Centerville came home from the Iraq War with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, he eventually found hope through a service dog who ...
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - Paws for Purple Hearts, a national nonprofit, is aiming to help veterans gain back their independence by pairing them with a service and therapy dog. The nonprofit — which ...
Training a service dog doesn’t just change the life of another veteran; it may help heal the trainer, too. A new study finds that volunteering with dogs could slow biological aging in female veterans ...
Inside a room full of wagging tails at Canine Partners of the Rockies in Aurora, Colorado, training looks a lot like play. But every command and every treat brings these dogs one step closer to ...