I mentioned it before.
Pulling shelter dogs from high kill shelters and putting them through training to be therapy and service dogs for disabled veterans.
There are a couple of other non profit groups that do this same thing but only two that use shelter dogs. There is a search and rescue group, who has actually become internationally known to produce outstanding SAR dogs, that did this same thing; an idea that turned the SAR community on its head.
The VA made a recent decision that while studies repeatedly showed that disabled Veterans quality of life was exponentially better especially among the PTSD/TBI vets they would not in fact be paying for therapy dogs.
They will pay for seeing eye dogs so that area would not need to be covered.
My idea is that at the lowest level of training dogs can be trained as therapy dogs, which is really not much more than earning a canine good citizen certificate and at the higher end of the spectrum be service dogs that provide assistance in various ways.
I've talked to a couple of high kill shelters, a veterinary clinic group (need to talk to a few more) and two trainers that are all on board to provide services.
The friend is looking into the nuts and bolts and dealing with legalities and funding.
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