Home Depot Foundation helps PTSD service dogs group

Area veterans thrown a bone
Sep. 21, 2012
Written by
Jim Totten
DAILY PRESS and ARGUS

Terran Frye didn't need to think long about what would have happened to him if he hadn't received his psychiatric service dog, Hershey.

"I'd probably be dead," said Frye, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder.

"It's a demon for a lot of veterans," Frye explained of the condition.

Hershey has helped Frye with anxiety and pulled him through crowds when he's feeling uneasy. The rescue dog, trained at the Howell Township-based nonprofit Stiggy's Dogs, has allowed him to get out more often and resume a normal life.

On Thursday, Frye was glad to see more than 150 Home Depot employees gather at Stiggy's Dogs and spend the day constructing a handicap-accessible bedroom, bathroom and kitchen for veterans participating in the program. Employees, who were volunteering on their day off, extended a porch and added a ramp, completed landscaping and cleaned up the large wooded property.
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