Canines For Combat Veterans

www.neads.org

In May, 2006, Dogs for Disabled Americans/NEADS was the first service dog program in the country to be invited to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC to meet with soldiers injured in Iraq and Afghanistan.
On August 17th, we returned to Walter Reed to interview three candidates in the OT ward. All sustained combat-related injuries and are now single or double amputees. All were accepted to receive walker balance/service dogs from NEADS' new Canines for Combat Veterans program.
These dual trained dogs will serve as walker/balance dogs when the veterans are ambulatory and walking with their prosthetics - providing balance while walking, going up and down stairs, and getting up from a sitting or fallen position and act as service dogs when the veterans remove their prosthetics and transfer to a wheelchair - assisting by picking up things that drop, retrieving items from a distance, pulling manual wheelchairs a short distance, turning lights on and off.
NEADS/Dogs for Deaf and Disabled Americans is honored to be working with these service men and women.
We are very excited about the possibilities of this program and look forward to serving our country in this way – one dog at a time. For an application, please contact us.
To make a founding contribution to this important program: click here.