Skip to Main Content

The Science Behind the Success Stories

Stories of how dogs make people feel better are nice. Researchers seek data driven answers

Aired 11/06/2020

A Dog's Service

The Science Behind the Success Stories

Special | 4m 32sVideo has Closed Captions

Stories of how dogs make people feel better are nice. Researchers seek data driven answers

If you have a dog yourself you know the feeling. Your pup rests its head on your lap, or gives you a certain look and you feel better. To advance the practice of providing service dogs to veterans with PTSD researchers are collecting data to back the anecdotal accounts of dogs making humans feel at ease. Co-produced with Believet.

Aired 11/06/2020

Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback

Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback

A Dog's Service is a local public television program presented by TPT

A Dog's Service

The Science Behind the Success Stories

Special | 4m 32sVideo has Closed Captions

If you have a dog yourself you know the feeling. Your pup rests its head on your lap, or gives you a certain look and you feel better. To advance the practice of providing service dogs to veterans with PTSD researchers are collecting data to back the anecdotal accounts of dogs making humans feel at ease. Co-produced with Believet.

Aired 11/06/2020

Problems with Closed Captions? Closed Captioning Feedback

How to Watch A Dog's Service

A Dog's Service is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and Vizio.

A Dog's Service is a local public television program presented by TPT

Sign in with Email

or

Continue with GoogleContinue with FacebookContinue with Apple

By creating an account, you acknowledge that PBS may share your information with our member stations and our respective service providers, and that you have read and understand the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

Are you sure you want to remove null from My List?