If I could add in, and this may help a bit, we know from the research that dogs will help you, no matter what. A pet will help you. However, what we found in the research is that veterans going through the program and learning with their dogs, going through all the struggles, develop new pathways in their brains.
If we're truly looking at helping veterans regain some kind of—for lack of a better word—normalcy, reconnecting pathways in the brain to retain long-term and short-term memory improvements is a key ability for them to once again be able to function within the family, with friends and in their community.
I'm dealing with an MLA in Saskatchewan right now who was given a fully trained—supposedly fully trained—service dog. When I met him and started working with him, he had no idea of some of the things that his dog was doing, because there was no work put into him. He was just given a supposedly fully trained dog.
If you don't know what the possibilities are, how do you know what that dog can do for you, if you haven't learned about it?