Category: service dog

VIDEO: Service Dog Who Can ‘Read People’ Lifts Up Owner Hospitalized With Serious Heart Condition

To look at him, you wouldn’t expect Brian Benson to be the keeper of a service dog. He works out seven days a week in his home gym, doesn’t drink, and is almost obsessive about clean eating. He’s health-conscious and successful. Benson was, nevertheless, recently hospitalized with a serious heart condition, yet his service dog, Magnus,…


VIDEO: Loyal K9 Amazingly Pushes Disabled Owner in Wheelchair Across Streets in Mexico, And It’s Incredible

The bond between a dog and its human is generally one of pure love and unbreakable loyalty. If there was ever any doubt that dogs were made for humans—that they’re man’s best friend—let this video put the matter to rest forever! On a busy street corner in Ecatepec, Mexico, last summer, one young woman caught…


How to Be a Well-Behaved Shopper

Shopping for food, clothing, hardware, and other items requires interacting with others. Even if they don’t have great manners, you should. Obey the Right of Way Grocery store aisles aren’t unlike streets in that it’s important to flow with other traffic, either going in the same direction or the opposite way. You may need to…


California Gets Tough on Fraudulent Service Animals

California pet owners will face jail time or hefty fines beginning Jan. 1 if they fraudulently tell businesses that their fur babies are emotional support animals. A new, first-of-its-kind state law makes it a misdemeanor to misrepresent pets as service animals. The new law also requires tougher rules for sellers, trainers, and doctors. Lawmakers and…


‘I Can Go Anywhere’: How Service Dogs Help Veterans With PTSD

It was supper time in the Whittier, California, home of Air Force veteran Danyelle Clark-Gutierrez, and eagerly awaiting a bowl of kibble and canned dog food was Lisa, a 3-year-old yellow Labrador retriever. Her nails clicking on the kitchen floor as she danced about, Lisa looked more like an exuberant puppy than the highly trained…