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 stick, and...

Hello! This is a call for the crafty among us! One task that Service Dogs Inc teaches our dogs is “Pull”. This can be used to open doors, drawers, cabinets, bring laundry baskets, pull phones out of pockets- YOU NAME IT. One thing that makes it so much easier for the dogs- is if they see the tug that they have been taught to pull from the beginning- they can totally understand that their job is to pull on that tug no matter what it is attached to! SO- to make life easier for our dogs and...

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 brightest star in...