A 13-year-old boy and his father successfully advocated for a new Virginia law that allows parents of students with ...

The students foster future service dogs, forming deep bonds before giving them up to help veterans and people who are blind ...

Brenda Schafer Kennedy, SM ’93, knows that sometimes the best medicine comes with four legs and fur. Kennedy is the chief ...

In A Nutshell A study of 13 assistance dog teams found that dogs function as genuine care providers, not just trained tools, ...

A Finnish study examining interaction between humans and their assistance dogs has found that these working canines actively ...

Service dogs are highly trained animals that assist individuals with specific disabilities, like blindness, hearing loss, ...

Many people believe that a certified emotional support animal is the same as a service dog. The confusion around these two ...

Albuquerque's Academy of Canine Excellence brought eight service dogs to NASA's Johnson Space Center for real-world training.

Medical service dogs assist patients with physiologic alerts for conditions like POTS, though evidence for cardiac benefits ...

ENHANCING LIVES WITH HIGHLY TRAINED SERVICE DOGS. THAT’S WHAT CANINE COMPANIONS DOES FOR VETERANS AND THOSE WITH DISABILITIES. AND ALL OF IT IS AT NO COST TO THE PERSON WHO THE DOG EVENTUALLY ENDS UP ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — A ruff day at work for a few dogs on Friday morning at the JW Marriott hotel in Grand Rapids. The canines, training to be service dog companions, were learning how to serve their ...

LAND O' LAKES, Fla. — In a neighborhood where the flags fly high and service is never forgotten, one family has spent the past five months welcoming a family member who lends a paw whenever life gets ...