I know I haven't posted in a week but so much has been going on so I have some important things to share so I hope you will read all the way through this post. Right now I am putting away books and things that I am still unpacking and putting in place and with every book or item I touch it takes me back to that time and as I am doing this I am once again listening to music.  None of you know but I used t ...

Things have been really busy for me lately which is the reason my post is late.  We had a good friend of the family pass away this last week.  He started with bladder cancer and then the cancer spread to different organs until it took over his body along with the chemo, radiation, and frequent trips to the hospital to receive fluids and blood.  Steve was a wonderful person and even when I knew he was hur ...

This article is copied in full from the website at The Rhino Den, Usually we would only copy the first few paragraphs - but we want you to read it all! Read more articles from this author here. I Have PTSD…So What? I have PTSD. We all know what it is, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. I am one of millions who are affected by it each and every day. Millions of men and women who have varying symptoms yet mana ...

New York Times By JAMES DAO Published: April 28, 2012 SAN DIEGO — The hovering aircraft was just a plain-vanilla traffic chopper, a benignly common species to Southern California skies. But its mere presence overhead was enough to make Tori Stitt stiffen. Tori Stitt found that medication and therapy did not rid her of the trauma of a tour in Iraq. Her service dog, Devon, is a big part of her recovery. Mor ...

We are adding a new category to the blog on paws4people.org - Post Traumatic Stress News. There is such a wealth of information every day about PTSD, TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) as well as the next huge issue to explode on the military - Military Sexual Trauma (MST). We will be adding news as we find it...     ...

As of this morning, Monday April 17th, the 30 Day Challenge paws4vets is using to help Veteran April Cook and her Service Dog CLAIRE raise as much as she can to help the next veteran get a dog has raised $827. We greatly appreciate the 22 people who have given from $1 to $300 to raise these funds. Is this it? The paws4people family, friends, and donors can only raise $827 in 15 days of trying fairly hard? P ...

Heroes First Foundation is organizing the 3rd Annual Charity Golf Outing at Stone Mtn Park in Atlanta May 3 with proceeds to benefit paws4vets. If you know someone near Atlanta please pass on the message. Players, sponsors, and donors of food and drink are very, very welcome! All proceeds go towards training and placing Service Dogs with Veterans and Active-Duty military members whose lives are forever chan ...

This week, we had various clients with PTSD and a P4P dog come in and speak to us. Their was 1 previous paramedic, 2 Military men with PTSD, and 1 Military man with TBI. They said in one form or another how they never thought they would get PTSD, that it really is the straw that broke the Camels back. Each person rely heavily on their dogs for function and are especially devoted to their dogs. They are awar ...