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Preventing Dog Bites

June 24, 2020

The number of U.S. Postal Service employees attacked by dogs nationwide fell to 5,803 in 2019 – more than 200 fewer than in 2018 and more than 400 fewer since 2017. The Postal Service has new technology tools to help reduce dog attacks. The theme for the 2020 U.S. Postal Service National Dog Bite Awareness […]

Chief Calming Pawfficer

June 24, 2020

After a hiatus due to COVID-19, Longmont Dental Loft’s therapy dog will be returning to the office effective June 29th, 2020. Bentley is an Australian Labradoodle with the title of Chief Calming Pawfficer. As the Chief Calming Pawfficer, Bentley interacts with patients that enjoy being around dogs. He typically sits on patients laps and […]

Service Dog University

June 23, 2020

Bonnie Bergin recalls taking family trips as a child from her home in Willits to the Bay Area and stopping at the Green Mill Inn restaurant in Penngrove for dinner. Now decades later, she is poised to open a new campus for her service dog training institution on the 10-acre property that she and her […]

Service Dog Brutus

June 23, 2020

Late in life, Brutus is building up quite a résumé. The loveable mutt, rescued from a California shelter, was a family pet before he trained to become a service dog for his Cliffside Park owner. Last month, after Brutus helped Jasmine Steinwand graduate from Centenary University, his memorable senior year on campus moved the chairwoman of […]

Program For Service Dogs

June 23, 2020

Puppies Behind Bars (PBB) founder and president, Gloria Gilbert Stoga, created a program that trains prison inmates to raise service dogs for wounded war veterans and first responders. Additionally, the organization trains dogs to become explosive-detection canines for law enforcement. Today, PBB operates throughout six correctional facilities in New York and New Jersey and has […]

New K-9 Member

June 23, 2020

The Carlsbad Police Department announced the retirement of one of it’s officers. Alf, a police dog, was a member of the Carlsbad Police Department since 2017, said Carlsbad Police Chief Shane Skinner in a news release. “He has been diagnosed with a degenerative bone condition and has been suffering from a lot of pain due […]

Organization For Service Dogs

June 23, 2020

Honoring America’s Warriors, an Oklahoma City veteran organization, was awarded a portion of a $10 million dollar federal grant to provide placement and training of service dogs for disabled veterans. The Wounded Warrior Service Dog Grant will be funded by congressional appropriations to the Department of Defense and the program is administered through the Uniformed […]

1st Female Police Dog

June 23, 2020

San Bernardino has had nearly three dozen police service dogs since the Police Department’s K-9 Unit was established about 42 years ago. But for four decades, the department never had a single female police canine. Until now. The Police Department recently welcomed K-9 Bella, a 3-year-old Belgian Malinois from the Netherlands. She will be working […]

Stolen Service Dog Returned

June 22, 2020

A week ago, things were looking pretty grim for Bobby Linville. His van with his 8-month-old husky mix service dog inside had been stolen from a parking lot at the Oceanfront early in the morning Friday, June 12. His dog, Baby Girl Blue, was nowhere to be found. Our sister-station WAVY-TV met up with Linville […]

Puppies In Coventry

June 22, 2020

Does looking after a puppy sound like the ideal way to spend the next 12 months? Then this dog charity could have the perfect job for you. Dogs for Good is appealing for volunteers in Coventry for ‘puppy socialisers’ to assist in training service dogs. The charity provides highly trained assistance dogs to people with […]

Hearing Guide Dog

June 22, 2020

Shay’s suit has two components: a red vest with “Lion’s Foundation of Canada Dog Guides [LFCDG] Hearing Dog Guide” written on it and a head harness called a Halti. The Halti looks a bit like a muzzle but doesn’t prevent Shay from opening her mouth as widely as she wants. With the leash connected to […]

Sovereign Dog Training

June 22, 2020

Lockdown, in wake of COVID-19, has brought pets and their owners closer than ever. As the society gets accustomed to the new normal, our pets are trying hard too, to adapt to the world that is changing every single day. Now with the Unlocking 0.1 underway, while you are getting ready to get back to […]

People With Disabilities

June 22, 2020

An online webinar on upholding the rights of people with disabilities during COVID-19 sparked discussion about the unique impact of the pandemic on the community. On June 16, over 100 attendees participated via Zoom. The two-hour discussion was held by Jewelles Smith, the Kwantlen Student Association’s policy and political affairs coordinator. “As a woman with […]

Rescue Dog And First Responders

June 22, 2020

Ron Leonard, a first responder chaplain in the Middle, Tenn., area of Nashville, dropped the U-B a line the other day to raise awareness for a service that’s available in many parts of the country, but as of yet not in the Northwest, according to their website. Ron describes it as a ministry of reconciliation […]

Service Dogs Dealing With Covid

June 22, 2020

The pandemic has interrupted training for dogs for people who have visual or hearing impairments, disabilities, epilepsy, autism, or diabetes. Here’s what that means for the dogs — and for the people who rely on them. When the Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides team called Andréa McLean in mid-March to ask her whether she’d […]

Ride Share Refused Guide Dog

June 22, 2020

A Lyft driver was banned from the app after allegedly refusing a blind woman a ride over her guide dog, Lyft confirmed to KENS 5 on Sunday. Melissa Padron said she was trying to run an errand earlier this week and instead of taking the bus, she decided to schedule a Lyft so that her […]

Explosives Sniffer

June 22, 2020

After having been on the tail of criminals for years, one of the top dogs of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is about to press ‘paws’ on his career. Patreek is an eight-year-old German Shepherd that responds to commands only in Russian. And he has allegiance to one person – his handler, Inspector Gregory Ottar, […]

Service Dog Graduates

June 22, 2020

William and Soya celebrated several milestones together this month as they graduated from fifth grade at Parkwood Elementary School. The two have grown up together, gone through school together and have been pretty much inseparable for the past six years but will be taking somewhat different paths once the new school year begins. William Dedmond […]

Service Dog Organization

June 19, 2020

Load the family, and your dog(s), into your vehicle, and head over to Dr. Fitzgerald and Associates. Check-in will start on July 4 at 9:30 a.m. Then, at 10 a.m., the Critter Cruise will head out on Williams Boulevard S.W. and eventually stop at Bandana’s Bar-B-Q on 3707 1st Ave. S.E. It will make the loop […]

Veteran’s Dog Chief

June 19, 2020

Port Charlotte Navy veteran Thomas Andrews says his dog, Chief, helps him get through the day. “I’m one hundred percent on disability. I’ve got PTSD through the military so he’s actually a comfort dog to me,” he said. So when his usually playful pup stopped moving around over the weekend, fear set in. “He wasn’t […]