Many benefits can be observed once a veteran has been paired with his service dog. They include:
- Increase in patience, impulse control, and emotional regulation & stability
- Improved ability to display affection
- Greater ability to bond and trust
- Decrease in emotional numbness/emotions less bottled up
- Improved sleep
- Significant decrease in suicidal thoughts
- Decreased depression, increase in positive sense of purpose
- Decrease in startle responses
- Decrease in use of pain medications
- Increased sense of belongingness and acceptance
- Decreased feelings of social isolation
- Increase in assertiveness skills, without aggression but confident
- Improved parenting skills and family dynamics
- Less war stories and flashbacks and more in-the-moment thinking
- Lowered stress levels, increased sense of calm
If you are a veteran interested in finding out more about our Service Dog program please fill out this form.