In short order, Teddy -- a bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 3-year-old yellow Lab -- punched a wall button with his nose, yanked a rope to open a kitchen cabinet door and tugged a walker across the floor.

DELAND - For nine years Allison Leffler felt helpless when her autistic daughter had sensory meltdowns. But recently she watched in awe as her sensory-overloaded daughter found comfort and calm in the ...

A national non-profit -- Canine Companions -- is celebrating 50 years providing trained service dogs, free of charge, to people who need them, and it's marking the occasion with some new ...

Veterans struggling with PTSD and mobility issues can rely on dogs to help them, according to Dr. Bonnie Bergin, founder of Paws for Purple Hearts. Dr. Bergin, a former special education teacher, ...

TODAY ON. FOR THE RECORD, I DIDN’T EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT A SERVICE DOG COULD DO FOR ME. A LOCAL ORGANIZATION AIMED AT PROVIDING SERVICE DOGS FOR VETERANS. I KNEW THAT WITHIN THE FIRST, I WOULD SAY TWO ...

CONCORD, Calif. (KGO) -- Service dogs have been helping the disabled and visually impaired for decades. But now an innovative program started in the Bay Area is now training dogs to help another group ...

Helping Paws has been in the spotlight since a moment of tragedy in June. Late House Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman fostered for the nonprofit for several years before she was killed. The nonprofit ...

When U.S. Marine veteran Kenny Bass of Centerville came home from the Iraq War with a traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder, he eventually found hope through a service dog who ...