Service Dogs

According to the ADA Service animals are defined as dogs that are individually trained to do work or perform tasks for people with disabilities. For the individual the definition is much more personal. Their service dog is with their human 24-7 helping in more ways than we can quantify.

Yes a service dog provides task to help the individual’s disabilities but they also provide purpose, structure, companionship, and valuable experience handling a working dog.

Service dogs go through an extensive training process leaning to adapt to situations permitted by social standards. Most service dogs train a period of 240 public access hours, learning to acclimate to a variety of surfaces, sounds, people, smells, elevators , escalators, stairs, automatic doors, and other animals. Often a service dog’s job is sitting or laying quietly for extended periods of time, which is one of the more difficult task to learn.

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Understand PTSD and Anxiety

PTSD and anxiety is not worn on the sleeve. In an over simplified generalization, PTSD is a symptom from a traumatic incident. Extreme anxiety is one of the main culprits of PTSD. I mention this because it’s easy to dismiss someone diagnosed with anxiety without the headliner PTSD. Either way a person can be prescribed a service dog by a therapist, phycologist, or medical doctor.

The reason soldiers are so often diagnosed with PTSD is they are going from zero; (a calm state) to ten; (a full adrenaline fight or flight situations) usually from combat situation. So what’s happening in the brain is the synapses connections are condition to bypasses reason to full on anger and rage. Basically you get so upset for the smallest incident, your almost outside yourself and one of the reasons your so pissed off and on edge.

Many people besides soldiers jump into light speed with anger in addition experience may of the symptoms mentioned bellow.

Systematically, a you first start to close yourself off from people, society, the world. Getting out of bed becomes difficult just thinking about facing the day. Everything you do revolves around avoiding confrontation in fear of basically yourself. The condition becomes the fear of a conversation or even making eye contact. What seems like normal reasoning is now the Twilight Zone.

It seems to snowball into letting go of things and sabotaging your health, your mind and your body. Your brain becomes mush, so the everyday simple planning gets overwhelming. Life becomes more cruise control in a daze, one day bleeding into the next. You only taking care of your basic needs. Now depression is added to the list. Meaning, purpose, and hope are just words outside your scope of understanding. Your circle of family and friends become you, me, and I. Life is sadness and loneliness lost in the madness of your own head.

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• 16.8 veterans commit suicide every day.

• Over 47,000 suicides recorded in a year across America.

• Suicide is the highest death rate in the United States.

With those astronomical high suicides something has to change.

Providing a service dog helps on many levels. That hole left in your chest from all those people you cut out of your life is now overflowing. A dog has to get out a couple times a day just to potty and at least once to exercise or play at the park and you are holding the leash. When outside your so focused on your dog, keeping a close eye making sure if it’s doing what it’s suppose to be doing, your finally out of your head. The connection you make with your dog maybe the only physical contact you make but it’s always reciprocated, which in turn tears down walls. In the morning you have purpose, it’s to potty and feed your dog.

When you start thinking through the process of taking your life you get stuck at what your going to do with your dog. No one is ever good enough to care for your dog like you, hence plans to end your life gets put on hold. And you continue on experiencing life with your dog who always has your six.

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Service Dog Veteran and First Responder Fund Me Project

Operation Ragnar6 is a community involved 501c3 nonprofit company. We are excited to bring the community together to help veterans and first responders with our service dog integration program, focused on trauma. Why a service dog? A service dog can provide purpose, help minimize medications, and help reduce the 16.8 suicides per day, reported by the National Suicide Prevention 2022 Annual Reports.
Lead the way by helping those who made a career in helping others. Enjoy the tax write off and help those who served our country. Your contribution is more than a check, its a chance to represent the best of us. Each service dog cost $30k and over the next six months our goal is to raise those funds. In raising the funds we help a neighbor, a brother, sister a son, or daughter in ways most could never understand. It’s not about understanding, it’s about compassion.

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Why are service dogs so expensive?
Training a service dogs takes years, medical care, food, shelter, equipment, travel, and years of knowledge as a trainer. We take it even a step further when training our dogs. Most of our service dogs can run naked with zero gear, meaning they require no e-collar, leash, harness, or other controlling equipment. Our dogs work for their handler’s attention, their affection, they respond to verbal commands the same at home as they do in high stress situations. We train our dogs to impulse recall, high level obedience, off leash heel, climb ladders, swim, paddle board, trail etiquette, play fetch, track, detect odor, and much more.

Why our process works.
Our dogs are selected and trained from birth, so you can understand why we are working so hard to provide them a loving home with a deserving veteran or first responder. The real fun comes once we match our dogs with a handler, over the next several months we work with the handler on consistency in our training methods. We provide the handler a crate, toys, grooming products, bowls, collars, leashes, first aid kit, goggles, booties, life jacket, harness, treats, dog food, dog bed, pretty much everything they need for their life of adventure together. We want to eliminate any unnecessary stress that comes with a new dog and provide a successful life long companionship.

We understand that a dog is a lot of responsibility and a dog does not fix everyone’s problems. This is a valid reason why each candidate goes through a selection process. With support from other nonprofits that specifically work with veterans, we can expect a high level of success. Serve your community and assist in helping those who served. It’s an opportunity to interject a positive change that spreads positively.

Service Dog $30,000.00

Bo is a fully trained service dog. He has been trained for public access, outdoor activities such as; paddle boarding, hiking, camping, trail running, basically and all around dog. He walks on and off leash, with a reliable recall, crate trained, and he climbs ladders,. Bo is a handsome dog who is very affectionate companion. He has the foundation built and the yearning for learning new skills and fun tricks.

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NOTES: Bo thrives off companionship, he loves his one on one interaction, routine quickly evolves into key turn operations, meaning reading the situation and responding adequately. He comes from a line of pure Belgian Malinois with healthy genetics and all their wonderful athleticism, smarts, and energy that has been honed through daily training since before he could open his eyes.

Service Dog: Bo Diddly
Breed: Belgian Malinois
Sex: Male
Commands: French/English
Specialized Skills: tracking/ odor detection
Equipment: Vest, Collar, Leash, Dog Bowls, Booties, Grooming Tools, Toys,
Handler Training: Valhalla K9 Training
Food: Lucy Pet

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Service Dog $30,000.00

Simone is a fully trained service dog. She has been trained for public access, outdoor activities such as; paddle boarding, hiking, camping, trail running, basically and all around dog. She has been trained around horses and often goes along for trail rides. Simone walks on and off leash, with a reliable recall, crate trained, also she climbs ladders. Simone has a unique dirty cream color adding a feminine charm. She is a very affectionate companion to her people. She has the foundation built and the yearning for learning new skills and fun tricks.

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NOTES: Simone thrives off companionship, she loves to play with her people and adapts to other dogs quickly. She comes from a line of pure Belgian Malinois with healthy genetics and all their wonderful athleticism, smarts, and energy that has been honed through daily training since before she could open his eyes.

Service Dog: Simone
Breed: Belgian Malinois
Sex: Female
Commands: French/English
Specialized Skills: tracking/ odor detection
Equipment: Vest, Collar, Leash, Dog Bowls, Booties, Grooming Tools, Toys,
Handler Training: Valhalla K9 Training
Food: Lucy Pet

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Veteran Service Dog Project

OR6 veteran service dog project is a video series that captures the voices of real veteran talk about their experiences with PTSD and High Anxiety. They talk about the changes in their mental health, and the freedoms provided by their service dog.

Some veterans get deep and talk about their military service and their difficulties to cope with civilian life. Others share the real struggles to find meaning, to get support, and the fortitude to press on. They share their voice with OR6 to provide some hope, some avenue for changes to the fellow veterans in need.

Our goal at OR6 is to provide a road map for veterans to follow, a window into possibilities of living more so than surviving. With our partners and your support we provide alternative avenues for veterans and first responders to make that paradigm shift in their lives. We utilize our outreach programs to provide jobs, education, service dogs, and much more. Learn how you can help become a partner or simply donate to OR6 for specific programs.

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