Dogs of Service | Documentary Trailer
Preview: 3/3/2025 | 2m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Follow the two-year service dog training process and hear from their handlers.
Thousands of people with disabilities rely on assistance of service dogs. From training as puppies, living in prison, and traveling the world, follow the two-year service dog training process and hear the stories of their handlers. “Dogs of Service,” a new one-hour documentary from Iowa PBS, coming March 2025.
Dogs of Service is a local public television program presented by Iowa PBS
Dogs of Service | Documentary Trailer
Preview: 3/3/2025 | 2m 29sVideo has Closed Captions
Thousands of people with disabilities rely on assistance of service dogs. From training as puppies, living in prison, and traveling the world, follow the two-year service dog training process and hear the stories of their handlers. “Dogs of Service,” a new one-hour documentary from Iowa PBS, coming March 2025.
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Because when you do go overseas, there's that feeling of you are you are in control.
I mean, once you've driven in that situation, it just makes you nervous.
You see a box along, sitting alongside a road over there.
It could have been an IED.
And here.
You know, it's not.
Your mind knows it's not.
But your instincts tell you that it could be, but you just had to be on a higher alert all the time.
That's what I really couldn’t turn off coming back.
And they're like, oh, you're back.
Just, you know, now you can chill out and well, I didn't I guess I never really quite figured out how to chill out so much.
I didn't leave the house a lot.
It's a culture shock to go from active duty to the civilian world.
The structure is gone, and for a lot of a lot of service members, I think that's what what drives em crazy.
And then this year, just by having Koko, it's amazing.
“Give a warm welcome to Scott and Koko...” The way it changes your life.
“Aren’t they cute?” It takes two years and $25,000 and countless, countless hours from volunteers to train service dog asking a dog to be a service dog.
It's a big task.
We are testing these dogs, watching these dogs and making sure they are really good fits for what we're asking them to do.
They've got a great job.
They get to be with their person all the time, every day.
Every dog wishes they could do that.
Almost.
But when that kit comes off, I want you to turn into a dog.
I want you to dig holes.
I want you to roll in the grass.
Be a dog.
We're handed some of the top 1% most well-bred dogs on the planet, and we know that they're going to someone, that it will chang..
I get to watch that puppy develop to an adult, and then I get to watch them pair with a veteran.
I get to watch families come back together.
If the things that you have given your country cause you to not be able to leave your house.
Those are the people we're after.
I know for a fact I can change your life.
I mean, I sob it every single time because I'm like, you have no ..
Dogs of Service is a local public television program presented by Iowa PBS