After President Biden signed the law to provide service dogs to veterans with war trauma, people are now paying attention to how therapy dogs can help former servicemen. One of the therapy dogs that has already been giving hope to veterans is Shadow, a 3-year-old golden retriever.

Michael Hanke, a supervisor in Klein Hall, Chippewa Falls, says, “The purpose of a therapy dog is the companionship. A properly trained therapy dog can identify certain issues that a veteran is having. If you walk around the halls and you see Shadow, sometimes he will just be laying down sleeping, and somehow he just knows if a veteran is going through an issue. He will just hang out with that veteran, and the veteran will get release from that.”

Therapy dogs don’t cost as much as service dogs when it comes to training. This could help the Veterans Affairs spend funds efficiently while still being able to help more and more veterans effectively.

Source: WQOW

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