<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6953f1d2-e43e-4ae3-ab30-c6737d9555db/E12069F5-B469-4D3F-8B90-0D15F6186FD8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs" href="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs" style="font-size: 11px;">www.examiner.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs"><H1> <DIV> <A href="#"><IMG border="0" src="http://image.examiner.com/img/icon/twitter.gif" /></A> </DIV> Veteran therapy dogs </H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs"><DIV> On this Veteran’s Day, let us also say “thank you “ to our dogs that serve our military veterans. Our vets return from combat suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), seizures, blindness, and missing limbs. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs"><DIV> These dogs intuitively know when a vet suffering from PTSD is getting ready to have a traumatic flashback and can calm the vet and bring their attention back to the here and now. They can warn a vet suffering from a TBI when he/she is about to have a seizure so the vet can put him/herself in a safe place or lie down on the ground. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs"><DIV> Veteran’s Helping Heroes provides funding to help train dogs for the American Vet Dog Program. It costs $50,000 for each dog. It takes two years to train a dog and the dog will retire after 8 or 9 years. </DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.examiner.com/x-19937-Lexington-Dogs-Examiner~y2009m11d11-Veteran-therapy-dogs">What a wonderful program to serve our vets! Happy Veteran’s Day</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E12069F5-B469-4D3F-8B90-0D15F6186FD8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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