This is another new puppy named WYATT II because we all know the famous WYATT! We have a new English Cream Golden Retriever puppy joining our family, his name is WYATT! I know, you've heard that name before! WYATT Jr. was generously donated by Shadymist Kennels. His breeder has registered him in honor of Shane Brenton, 23, who returned home after 3 tours in Iraq only to take his own life because of his psyc ...

These new puppies are GUS (left) and ELLA (right).  We are welcoming them to the paws4people family! ELLA & GUS are two wonderful black lab puppies who were generously donated by Barra Labradors. We are so grateful for these wonderful new additions! http://www.barralabradors.com/ These puppies seem to have the most wonderful disposition and are very mild mannered and sweet.  It is going to be so amaz ...

 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 ...

I usually wake up early because I spent 18 years getting up at 0200 but I am slowly getting better at sleeping in a little more.  I have been up for several hours now and I am up this morning because I had a nightmare related to past experiences that happened more than thirty years ago.  It has been a while since I had one of these so I was trying to figure out what the trigger for it was.  I usually sle ...

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 ...

By Lisa Wirthman Denver Post There are lessons in the murder of 17 civilians in Afghanistan last month, for which Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales faces criminal charges. But those lessons aren't in understanding how a lone soldier could commit one horrible act. They're in comprehending the repeated horrors of war we've asked our troops to face for 10 years, and the invisible wounds left behind. Our wars in Ira ...

The Army Surgeon General's office is backing away from its long-standing endorsement of prescribing troops multiple highly addictive psychotropic drugs for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and early this month warned regional medical commanders against using tranquilizers such as Xanax and Valium to treat PTSD. An April 10 policy memo that the Army Medical Command released regarding the diagn ...

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...     ...