CEO of K9s for Warriors,Rory Diamond, shed some light on the difficulties retired veterans face when traveling with their pets, or particularly when it comes to air travel,reported NPR.“Most of our graduates would rather not wing. We realize that their life is getting smaller because of fake and poorly trained dogs and we want their life to be big. We want them to have every opportunity,” Diamond said.
As a non-profit organization, and K9s for Warriors trains,and pairs service dogs with retired veterans. Based on their website, service dogs who graduate from K9s are specially trained to benefit veterans dealing with post-traumatic stress, and traumatic brain injury,and military sexual trauma. As one may have noticed, K9s service dogs are trained to benefit deal with impairments that are not physically obvious, or otherwise called invisible injuries. As a result,these furry cramped heroes are classified as psychiatric service dogs.
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Source: inquisitr.com