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In Their Debt: Hearing with Heart

Features, May June 2026, Online-only, Online-only Content, Service, Uncategorized

Life-changing Hearing Service Dogs Marguerite and Pam. by Jen Reeder Twenty years ago, when...
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In Their Debt: Friends to First Responders

In Their Debt, November December 2021, Service

Labs trained by the nonprofit Service Dogs, Inc. help our heroes When a yellow Lab named Lady arrived near the scene of the 2019 mass...
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In Their Debt: Lap Dog

In Their Debt, Online-only

Lab helps IndyCar racer manage diabetes There’s a lot to love about the Indianapolis Motor Speedway each May. Take the mounting...
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In Their Debt: Molly and Memo

Features, In Their Debt, Online-only

In many ways, a dog named Molly Jo seems like a typical Lab. Not only is the chocolate Lab...
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The Effect of Service Dogs on Family Members

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It’s something dog owners have always known, but now it’s been quantified: the positive effect on human beings from interacting with...
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Retrieving Freedom to break ground on new Sedalia, Missouri, headquarters

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Purina contributes $50,000 toward new facility SEDALIA, Mo., March 4, 2019 – Retrieving Freedom, Inc. (RFI), a nonprofit organization...
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Where Are They Now? Raising Some Future Leader Dogs

Excerpt, Features, Online-only, Online-only Content, Puppies, Service

by Jason Smith In the November/December 2014 and January/February 2015 issues of Just Labs, I...
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Tomorrow’s Leaders

Excerpt, Features, Online-only, Online-only Content, Puppies

Part 1 by Jason Smith I knew I was sunk as soon as my wife brought it up. No way this was not going to happen. We’d been contemplating...
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Pets are Humanizing

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by Deb McGrath Pets are humanizing. They remind us we have an obligation and responsibility to preserve and nurture and care for all...
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Labs for Heroes

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How Labrador Retrievers are Making Life More Livable for Veterans with PTSD By Tina Russo Kinney A...
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