Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Dogs Suffer PTSD Just Like Soldiers


Gina, a highly trained trained bomb sniffing dog went to Iraq to assist soldiers with door to door searches. She performed her job perfectly, but when she returned home she was changed. As soon as she got back to Colorado, she was deathly afraid to go into buildings, hid under furniture and avoided people. A military veterinarian diagnosed her with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, she had the same symptoms that humans suffer. Click here to find out more about Gina's recovery and more about pet PTSD.