5 Ways Service Dogs Help Veterans With PTSD

Veterans with PTSD may struggle with everyday tasks like going to the grocery store, being out in public, or acclimating to changing situations. It can be hard to nail down what triggers a veteran’s PTSD.

As a veteran, it can be even harder to manage your reaction to PTSD. There are various treatment options for PTSD.

However, service dogs are a great option to assist veterans with PTSD. Service dogs give the veteran something to focus on when triggered and act as emotional support daily. This article will discuss five ways service dogs help veterans with PTSD.

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5 Tips on How to Keep Your Puppies Healthy

Are you an owner of a new puppy? First things first, congratulations. It’s a happy day for you as an owner, as you’ll have a new set of paws to help you have a more fun and fulfilling life. However, it’s not all fun and games.
Puppies can also be troublesome and tiresome, especially if you’re not ready and don’t know
what to do from here on out. If you want to prioritize your puppy’s health and happiness, we
have some tips to follow to ensure these two. Here are some of them.

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Common Knee Problems in Dogs

Imagine you are at the park throwing the ball for your dog, or jogging next to your canine companion. Is he moving his hind quarters freely, easily and comfortably? Stiffness, swelling, favoring and soreness are all common signs of knee problems, and can happen at any age, size or breed of dog. Catching the symptoms the moment you notice them can help your dog have a faster and more complete recovery or healing process from the two most common knee problems; luxating patella and torn or ruptured cranial cruciate ligament.

What is Luxating Patella?

Have you ever had a dislocated joint? Humans often times, at one point in their life, will dislocate their shoulder or a digit. A dog’s luxating patella is a fancy way of saying dislocated knee cap! Caused often from trauma directly to the dog’s knee or genetic predisposition, any breed can be susceptible to the condition. Some breeds, specifically small breeds like Pomeranians and Chihuahuas are more likely to find themselves favoring a back leg.

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When Dogs Fight; Keeping Peace in a Multi-Dog Household

If you scroll through the local classifieds you may come across more than one dog looking for a new home because it’s not getting along with another in the same home. Dogs at the local shelter are, often times, labeled as aggressive towards other canines and must go to a home in which he will be the only pet. This belief of dogs being aggressive to one another due to things like jealousy, territory, or plain dominance are usually human-caused.

For example, that dog in the shelter who barks and growls at every other dog he sees when walking past the other kennels most likely is a very friendly and outgoing dog. By nature, dogs are extremely social animals especially with others of their own species. But that one dog may be labeled as too aggressive to live with another canine in his new home. Not only does that make it more difficult to find that one particular dog a home, his supposed aggressive towards other dogs may in fact be human caused. This means it can be solved through training and very basic canine care.

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