Hi Everyone!!  I have had a lot of questions lately about how BENNING is doing, so I figured I would blog to let everyone know!!  In my opinion, BENNING is doing Awesome!!  He still has to mature out of his puppy stages.  He is incredibly curious and sometimes hyperactive; but he is coming along little by little.  He loves the attention he gets when we visit schools and he does a wonderful job with th ...

Hey all, Unfortunately, the news has been full of press about dog bites recently. Even scarier, some of these attacks have been committed by "Service Dogs." The nature of, extent of, and origin of the training of said "biting Service Dogs" remains unknown...nevertheless, to the mostly untrained eye of the public, it tarnishes the reputation everyone involved with paws4people works so hard for. So, dog bites ...

Updates from Terry Henry... Yesterday Terry picked up two Silver Lab puppies donated  by John Stewart of Stewarts Utopia Kennel in Waynesboro Pa. A female named SOPHIE and a male named OATH are beginning their new career training at SFF Hazelton today! And today Terry is on hos way to another kennel in Pa. to pick up three more donated labradors! More info on them soon! We met with the new SFF Hazelton Adm ...

As much as you can hear it talked about, exemplified, and re-talked about, you never really understand the value of having an Assistance Dog by your side until you experience it.  For me, I think I got at least a small taste of that experience on the most stressful day in any new class- the first test. You see, when you walk into the classroom on test day there are two options: <!--more--> 1) The stu ...

When I walked out of class today all I could think was "Wow". I had never imagined that this class would not only be so informative but so inspirational. Today, Mrs. Ivancevich and ELLIE came to visit out class and tell us about her amazing little girl, Amanda. From the very beginning when she play the YouTube video "A Special girl and her dog", it was hard to not be completely moved by this one person. We ...

Hello everyone Neal and Piper here. Well we went to Applebee's and you would not believe it, Piper went under his table and acted like a real gentleman, he laid on the floor and only moved a couple times to reposition himself. It was unbelievable the dog actually stayed under the table with no coaxing. While there Karen my wife and I talked of what we're scheduled to do at the end of this month. We will be ...

February 14 2012. Hello everyone Neal and Piper here well believe it or not Piper and I took our access test and we past with flying colors. The dog was more laid-back than I was, it is unreal how he handles himself, the dogs a natural. Now all we are doing is waiting for our ID cards and then we will be able to go were we want to, it will be very comforting to know that my best friend can be with me all th ...

On 06FEB TAZIE and I took a trip to the mall.  This was the first time I went back to this Mall since I was home on Christmas Leave in 2004.  The last time I was here was a disaster.  I didn't think that I would really have any issues when I went, but it only took me a few minutes to realize that I had to leave.  This was at a time when I didn't know that I had PTSD, and none of my family did either.  ...