One year later, Elvis and Amy are still Taking Care of Business. Amy spends her days helping others heal as a licensed professional counselor, and runs Runnin' Free Ranch, a nonprofit in Ennis, Texas, that offers free equine-assisted counseling to veterans, at-risk youth, and families. Diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis as a child, Amy has a limited range of motion. Elvis helps her get what's just out of reach: picking up her phone when she drops it, retrieving her dressing

Accepting the award was SDI Founder and CEO and UT Graduate Sheri Soltes Plan II with High Honors, '81; School of Law with Honors, '84 Your support for a business that recycles its main component from something others throw away, invests over a year refining it and then gives its away for free landed us a global ranking of #31 in the top performing 100 Longhorn-led businesses worldwide. And people noticed. As students from the University of Texas read out each winning busin

Sputnik switched orbitals from Bastrop County Animal Services to SDI in February. In mere weeks, he has conquered new frontiers: helping represent us at community events, assisting with In-home training and even initializing sound alert training in his primary trajectory towards becoming a Hearing Dog. How did this brilliant, beautiful dog get ejected in his former life? We will never know. We only know that his future is as bright as Sirius, the Dog Star, known as the br

Originally from Harris County Pets, Groove won our hearts the moment he stepped onto our campus. A smart, loving dog, he excelled at task work and just like Olympic Gold Medal winner Alysa Liu, had a blast doing it. We matched him with Bruce Brim, as a Successor Service Dog to Bruce's first SDI Dog, Jax, also a Shepherd mix. Following treatment for a benign brain tumor, Bruce has lived with right side weakness and walking challenges for nearly 40 years. Groove arriving from

Big news: We have been named as one of the 100 fastest growing Longhorn businesses in the world b y the University of Texas Texas Exes. Our wonderful supporters get the credit for our 100% growth from 2023 to 2024, which placed us in the top ranks of thousands of UT grad led businesses globally. You can bet that SDI is the only one among them that literally gives our product away free of charge ! And we wouldn’t have it any other way. While the accolades are nice, what we r

Service Dogs, Inc. (SDI), an Austin-based nonprofit, announces the addition of Psychiatric Service Dogs for PTSD to its nearly 40 years of providing working Service Dogs to veterans and others in need. “We receive more requests from veterans with PTSD than anything else,” SDI Founder and CEO Sheri Soltes says. “With the community’s help, we are answering the call.” Psychiatric Service Dogs assist individuals with PTSD. They interrupt nightmares and panic attacks, help filter