Train a Dog, Save a Warrior

The Train a Dog Save a Warrior (TADSAW) program serves the warrior, the family and the community, by providing the warrior with a K-9 rescue 'Battle Buddy' and the training and tools needed to become an accredited Warrior/Service Dog Team. TADSAW additionally provides for the training of a Medical Alert Service Dog for any warrior's immediate family, the spouse or children, surviving with compassion fatigue, secondary PTSD, or any other mental health issue diagnosed while the warrior was deployed or on active duty. Whenever possible, TADSAW will evaluate the warrior's personal dog, because the bond has been established, to determine the dog's viability to be a service dog candidate. If the waror nees a dog, TADSAW's trainers will go to a rescue shelter and evaluate and select an appropriate candidate for the warrior. There is life after injuries. This new quality of life just might be, in part, based on a PTSD SERVICE DOG. Here’s how TADSAW'S PTSD SERVICE DOGS can help. A rescue dog from a shelter or the warrior’s own personal dog, if deemed appropriate in temperament, demeanor, and size, will be evaluated, enter BOOT CAMP, and be trained specific commands for specific needs of a wounded warrior with PTSD. Once trained, these TADSAW SERVICE DOGS have the ability to decrease isolation of the veteran, decrease the needs for many medications, decrease anxiety and panic attacks when in crowded public places, awaken them from nightmares and flashbacks, ‘have their backs’ when necessary, to name but a few. For more information, please visit our website Please like us on Facebook