The K-9's for Veterans program opened its doors in Joliet this week. It runs another location in Cicero.
-- There was some big news for little friends in the southwest suburbs on Wednesday: the K-9's for Veterans program opened its doors.
These lovable dogs are not just extended family members. They're service dogs for veterans like Zack Jet. Jet, who has post-traumatic stress disorder, has been in the K9 for Veterans programs for two years. Rocky was trained in the program. "In the military, we had a battle buddy system," he said."So everywhere you went, you always had somebody with you. Whenever we got out of the military, we didn't have that. So having the dog with me to do the exact same thing that battle buddy did for me eight, 10 years ago.""Since then, we've done 76 dogs in our program," Tellerino said.
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