Trans America Cycling Day 40 - Rest Day in Orange Beach, AL
1000 TADSAW Service Dog Teams Accredited Train A Dog-Save A Warrior (TADSAW) has announced that their 1000 th service dog team has been accredited. This is a major milestone in the life of the TADSAW program. It means that 1000 veteran lives have potentially been saved. The number may even be a conservative estimate, because for every warrior/service dog team that is accredited from having passed “final exam” tests, there are many more teams that have entered, received a dog and trained in the program. Just because veterans for whatever reason could not make it through the entire program doesn’t mean that they did not grow and improve their lives from the experience with their dog. The veterans would have cared for and trained their dog under the tutelage from the TADSAW trainer for some period of time. In most cases the veteran still has their dog. Even though they didn’t attain the status of Medical Alert Service Dog, the veteran and their dog are probably companions fo