Military Working Dogs – Canines Who Help Our Soldiers.

Military Working Dogs (MWD’s) have been used by the U.S. Military since World War I. Along with their volunteer handlers, the dogs are trained in teams as scouts, trackers, sentry, mine/booby-trap/tunnel and water detection of hostile forces. They have been used in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Kosovo and now Afghanistan and…

Shelter Dogs Bring Hope to Veterans

“When a warrior arrives at our academy, they arrive on two legs; they leave on six.” -Shari Duval, President, K9s for Warriors More than two million soldiers have served in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. According to 2011 figures from the Department of Veterans Affairs, 476,515 veterans with primary or secondary diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) received…