(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 ...

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 ...

Not so long ago, dogs were valued primarily for the jobs they performed. They hunted, herded livestock, and guarded property, which required them to have an active prey drive, boundless energy, and a ...

Correction: A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that service dogs are registered animals. For more than two years, Wallis Brozman and her service dog, Mork, developed a close bond as ...

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 ...

Follow the two-year service dog training process and hear from their handlers. Thousands of people with disabilities rely on assistance of service dogs. From training as puppies, living in prison, and ...

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