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PTSD as well. He understands exactly what I am dealing with. He puts us in the kinds of situations that we know we have trouble with, so we can work through the situations and learn to deal with them.
Keena is in training to comfort me when I am triggered. Keena is also training to do adrenaline detection crowd control and searching out to see if anything I think is a bomb, she will also be searching the house when we are gone for long periods of time she will search the house to make sure no one is in the house. She naturally knows when I’m upset, and she will nudge me to pet her and try to take my focus off what I'm doing at the time. Her favorite toy is a tennis ball. If you have a tennis ball, she will do anything to get it so training with it is fun. Her quirks are that she loves swinging her paws like a boxer when we play with her, she will slap you with them if she can’t get to you. She loves all of my family and she plays with the kids and my wife. She doesn’t always listen to them when they give her commands, so sometimes I have to give her the commands for her to listen to what they want her to do.
When we are out and about with my family she not only keeps me calm but she also is constantly watching to make sure my family is ok too. That is something she does naturally, without being trained to do so, and it's like she is protecting all of us, all of the time.
“Before you get a dog, you can't quite imagine what living with one might be like; afterward, you can't imagine living any other way.” - Caroline Knapp
Courtenay: Before my brother died I held onto the belief that maybe I could do something to help him, but that thought that I could have prevented his death always remained in the back of my mind. It was the same way I felt every time I saw military
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