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https://www.eventbrite.com/e/be-at-ease-tickets-66057071479 Dogs Helping Heroes is proud to announce that we will be hosting our 3rd annual event, “Be at Ease”, at The Mellwood Arts Center on Thursday, November 7th, at 6pm. Please join us for food and drink, enjoy a chance to check out local artist and meet some of our AMAZING Hero Teams! We are dedicated to helping restore lost freedom and peace of mind to wounded Veterans, first responders and their families, by gifting specially trained and certified service dogs. Our goal for this event is to fund service dogs and build [...]

Hero Team of the Month July/August 2019 Jim Day and Samson Jim Day served in the Army in Vietnam in 1970 with Delta Company/23rdlllth brigade. He was a "grunt," beginning as a rifleman out in the triple canopy jungle-where the sun never hit the ground, up in the mountains to the rice paddies-which were too hot to walk on be-tween the paddies, this was great for booby traps. Jim hoped to go to sniper school and work with smaller units, which he did and was reassigned to Echo Co. 3/1st. 23rd Inf. Division and [...]

Hero Team of the Month (June) Steve & Harley My name is Steve Curry and my dog’s name is Harley. I am a US Air Force Vietnam Veteran and a retired police officer. Harley was a rescue dog from the Humane Society of Oldham County. From 2014 to 2016, I volunteered as a committee member of the Hershel “Woody” Williams Medal of Honor Foundation. Our goal was to build a monument to honor Gold Star Families at the Kentucky Veteran’s Cemetery across from Ft. Knox. The monument was dedicated in September 2016. Harley is [...]

Hero Team of the Month (May) John and Zakk John was medically retired from the US Army. Coming home and adjusting to civilian life proved difficult for John and he started having difficulty with depression and severe anxiety. As John struggled to adjust he sought out support and with the help of his wife, Lindsey, they found DHH.Around the time that John was connected to DHH, Zakk was found lost in Oldham County. Tier Haven rescued Zakk and eventually sent him to Duffy’s and Dogs Helping Heroes to begin his Journey as a Service [...]

Hero Team of the Month (April)-John and Cash John Wells, a Navy Corpsman who was transferred to USMC at Camp Lejeune where he completed combat training. After combat training he then went to the Naval Hospital in Key West for 6 month before he was sent to Vietnam. John was deployed in November 1967 where he served as a combat corpsman for the 1st Marine Division.After Vietnam John was stationed at The New London Naval Hospital in New London, Connecticut. John was matched with Cash almost 4 years ago, at a time where he [...]