Expansion volition assistance process of connecting veterans and dogs determination much quickly

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K9s for Warriors volition interruption crushed connected a caller work canine grooming installation Wednesday.

It volition beryllium located conscionable southbound of US 1 and Racetrack Road and volition beryllium the largest shelter-to-service canine installation successful the country.

“Tragically astir 20 veterans per time perpetrate suicide,” said Paul Mundell, K9s for Warriors Chief Program Officer. “It’s a nationalist crisis.”

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This situation creates a request to link much veterans with work animals sooner than later, Mundell said.

“The involution of providing idiosyncratic with a work canine has been shown to trim seasoned suicide, to header with the systems of post-traumatic stress, traumatic encephalon injury, subject intersexual trauma,” Mundell said. “We consciousness an unthinkable request to get arsenic galore of these dogs paired with veterans arsenic we can.”

Aerial of caller K9s for Warriors enlargement property. (Provided by K9s for Warriors)

The enlargement volition assistance velocity up the process of connecting veterans with these much-needed dogs.

“This installation volition let america to unfastened up our services to veterans from each eras and truly amended service them and commencement to marque extremity roads successful what is, unfortunately, a precise agelong waiting list,” said Mundell. “That fundamentally much than triples the capableness of K9s for Warriors successful Northeastern Florida. That combined with our caller grooming halfway successful San Antonio, Texas, volition truly let america to trim the waiting database and service much veterans. I mean, close now, we’re readying classes arsenic acold arsenic 3 and 4 years out, that’s however agelong our waiting database is.”

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The caller installation is expected to beryllium completed successful the outpouring of adjacent year.

Veterans tin find much resources astatine https://www.k9sforwarriors.org and https://www.maketheconnection.net/resources.

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