Every Tuesday morning, I drive 15 minutes from my home in Swannanoa to Asheville to volunteer with Warrior Canine Connection, a nonprofit that breeds, trains and places highly skilled service dogs with veterans with visible and invisible wounds.
As a U.S. Army veteran, I have become intimately familiar with the important role service dogs can play in a veteran’s life. Read the full story in Mountain Xpress.
Training service dogs helps veterans heal
July 6, 2022 – Asheville can feel as if dogs have the run of the place. They are seemingly in every brewery and every restaurant and every trail. Nearly all of these animals are pets that might occasionally earn their keep by barking at a black bear in the trash or chasing a gopher from the tomato patch. Read the full story in Mountain Xpress here (story begins on page 20).
April 19, 2022
HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) – In Western North Carolina, dogs will be ready to serve someone in need, all thanks to a few men and women who have served.
Military veterans train the dogs. And during the process, they learn coping mechanisms too.
Nicholas Baird is a Marine Veteran.
“It started out as a volunteer opportunity, but it quickly turned into more; especially when I met Danny,” Baird said.
Watch the full story on Fox Carolina here.