Carta also often worries about where she’s placed on a plane. In her experience, people with disabilities and service dogs ...

(WHTM) — If you are out and about you may see someone in public with a dog in a purple vest. The dog is a service dog and them along with their handlers actually can run into difficulties, although it ...

WASHINGTON — More than a dozen bills for improving veterans services were introduced Wednesday to House lawmakers in a series of brief hearings, from covering the cost of prosthetics for amputees to ...

Untrained or poorly trained animals are misrepresented as service animals, creating issues for people with disabilities and businesses. Fake service dogs cause problems such as unsanitary behavior, ...

Service dogs can be four-legged lifesavers, alerting to dangerous allergens, assisting with travel and making people with a wide range of disabilities safer. But fake service dogs, advocates say, are ...

As a disabled veteran with a service dog trained by K9 Partners for Patriots in Brooksville, I have a unique perspective on one of the most pressing issues facing the service dog community today: the ...

TOMS RIVER, N.J. − Before Anthony Certa began talking about his three deployments in Iraq as a U.S. Marine and military police officer, he gave a gentle command to his service dog. "Mando, on my lap," ...

Bill Lins stuck it out in the U.S. Marine Corps for as long as he could. Enlisting in 2004, Lins, 38, served in Iraq in 2006 and 2007. On that last deployment, his unit was prepping vehicles at FOB ...

Jenni Mahnaz admits she’s not much of a dog person. She’s mildly allergic, and the only pet she had as a child was a hermit crab. But once she learned that specially trained dogs could help her ...

They fight for our freedoms but often struggle to live their own lives freely due to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Roughly 7% of all US service veterans have PTSD, with symptoms such as ...

Follow the two-year service dog training process and hear from their handlers. Thousands of people with disabilities rely on the assistance of service dogs. Follow the two-year service dog training ...