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Molly And Her Service Dog

October 2, 2020

Two and a half-year-old Molly Chow is surrounded by a loving family of her mom Susan, dad David, and four siblings. The couple moved to Medicine Hat from Vancouver in 2006 and made the decision to become foster parents. They’ve been fostering for the last 14 years and their family has grown in a big […]

Service Dog In Training

October 2, 2020

Stimpy crawls under a table outside of Eastway Hall, pawing gently at an orange peel a few feet away on the grass. The peel is out of reach. Mission failed. Lindsey Czopek, Stimpy’s owner, laughs. For the past 11 months, Stimpy, a one-year-old chocolate lab, and Czopek have been almost inseparable. The pair are a […]

Service Dog Denied

October 2, 2020

Three disabled veterans with ADA trained service dogs say they were kicked out of the same bar and restaurant in Port Orange twice. The owner has since apologized but as WESH 2’s Claire Metz reports, the veterans are angry and more than disappointed. “I tried to show them his certificate– that he was actually a […]

Orbit The Facility Dog

October 2, 2020

Huntsville Hospital’s newest employee has four legs, plays fetch and answers to the name of Orbit. The new facility dog was made possible by a grant from PetSmart Charities through Huntsville Hospital Foundation, and started seeing patients in mid-September. Orbit and his sister Asteroid are Golden Retrievers that make up Huntsville Hospital Foundation’s Canines for […]

MTSU’s Police Dog

October 2, 2020

For MTSU Police K9 handler and patrol specialist Zachery Brooker, the loyalty he receives from his K9 Bobby “can’t be compared.” This month marks the anniversary of the dog’s first year of service for the campus police department. Bobby and Brooker have been “very fortunate to have a really good first year” and the other […]

Robotic Dogs

October 2, 2020

ll of us who live with dogs know the many ways they benefit us. Chief among them are companionship, love, affection, and a sense of calm and happiness. Numerous research projects have studied these real, measurable effects and have unequivocally proven dogs’ positive impact on both our health and well-being. Recently, some in the world […]

Therapy Dog Bringing Comfort

October 1, 2020

Lt. Col. Steve Peters was completely at ease during a Tuesday interview. Granted, it didn’t involve tough questions on a controversial topic. But even if it had, it would have been pretty hard to be stressed out with a 35-pound puppy squirming in your lap and playfully nipping at your sleeves. Peters, the wing chaplain […]

Pet Pampering

October 1, 2020

Massage therapy for animals. While unconventional, it’s not a far-fetched idea. Muscles are muscles, according to April Begosh, and they all need care. The 25-year veteran massage therapist is a lifelong pet owner and animal lover who decided to apply her knowledge and experience to help pets too. “Going from massaging humans to animals was […]

Autism Service Dogs

October 1, 2020

Over the last year-and-a-half Kim Rosenbaum has witnessed firsthand the positive impacts that her family’s four-year-old Yellow Lab-Golden Retriever mix Autumn has had on her household. But Autumn isn’t really a pet. She was trained and adopted by Rosenbaum from BluePath Service Dogs for her 15-year-old daughter Lindsay, the oldest of her four children. Lindsay […]

K9 Salute Team

October 1, 2020

The (MWDM) in South Lyon gives the canines that once served our country, troops, police and firefighters, along with therapy and service dogs, a proper sendoff. The memorial cemetery, first established in 1932 as a pet cemetery, was rediscovered and renamed in 2010 as the MWDM, and it has hosted services to honor the dogs […]