Graduation Is Almost Here!

Veteran Ryan and his service dog Spirit will graduate this week. Ryan was originally scheduled to be paired with another dog, Ozzie, but Ozzie got sick the day they were to be paired. K9s for Warriors sent Ryan out for his first day of training with Spirit (who was still in the kennel program and not slated to be matched until next month), hoping Ozzie would recover quickly and be ready the next day. Spirit and Ryan did so well together, the decision was made to keep them a team and require him to come back after this month’s training class to continue to train until Spirit was ready to graduate. Spirit is such a smart boy and they developed such a strong bond that they will be graduating early!