I was watching the local news channel the other day, and they did a segment on an organization that appears to be based in the Tampa-St. Pete area called Pit Bulls 4 Patriots. The organization got its start pairing shelter pit bulls with veterans suffering from PTSD and helping train the dogs to become assistance animals for their human partners. The dogs and training are available completely free of charge to the participating veterans, who are expected to take part in training the dogs.
Here's a cool video from the P4P Youtube channel, showing some of the training in progress – a group of handlers and their assistance-dogs-in-training working in a shopping mall. I love this.
I have no idea whether the organization has any presence in Orlando yet, but I thought they might since they were featured on our local news, so I sent them an email to see whether there's any way I could get involved. Such a cool idea for a program – and a great way to get suitable dogs out of the shelter and into situations where they can be put to work doing something they can excel at.
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