Service members engage with these specially bred, highly intelligent, low arousal puppies. In an 18-24 month service dog regimen the dog induces more than 90 commands while the veteran reestablishes into civilian life. When the training is finally complete, the service dog will then be placed with veterans with mobility-limiting injuries. Training begins about 3 weeks of age by staff and volunteers, helping to prepare these young dogs to become loving and loyal companions. These service dogs will then live the rest of their lives with and by their new owner. In order to fully train a service dog to be placed with a wounded warrior costs PPH 25,000$. As the dogs mature they will go through the final training step and evaluations. Some of the dogs will be placed with a veteran that has combat related injury while others will go on for “career changes” as therapy dogs, facility dogs to be used as demonstration, or be released to a loving
Service members engage with these specially bred, highly intelligent, low arousal puppies. In an 18-24 month service dog regimen the dog induces more than 90 commands while the veteran reestablishes into civilian life. When the training is finally complete, the service dog will then be placed with veterans with mobility-limiting injuries. Training begins about 3 weeks of age by staff and volunteers, helping to prepare these young dogs to become loving and loyal companions. These service dogs will then live the rest of their lives with and by their new owner. In order to fully train a service dog to be placed with a wounded warrior costs PPH 25,000$. As the dogs mature they will go through the final training step and evaluations. Some of the dogs will be placed with a veteran that has combat related injury while others will go on for “career changes” as therapy dogs, facility dogs to be used as demonstration, or be released to a loving