Vietnam Veteran PTSD Service Dog Found

There is something off about this story. Since when does a trained PTSD service dog run away from owners? They paid a "professional" to train the dog to be a service dog and they don't just run off if trained properly. The other puzzling thing is why would the dog run away instead of to them when they finally found her?

Vietnam vet gets back his missing service dog
Sun Sentinel
By Tonya Alanez
January 1, 2015

The $500 reward went to Peterman, Jarrod Jones and Brian Johnson, said Rodriguez, a retired Army veteran who was awarded two Purple Heart medals.

Lost service dog found
(second from left) Rene Rodriguez paid a $500 reward to the three men who led him to his dog Thursday. James Peterman (green pants), Jarrod Jones (holding the cash) and Brian Johnson (wearing a hat).
(Rene Rodriguez, Courtesy)

Missing for five days from her Pompano Beach home, Bambi the service dog has been found and three Pompano Beach men are $500 richer.

It took two hours and 25 people chasing the skittish Shar Pei around Weaver Park Thursday afternoon to subdue the animal, but now she's home safe and sound, said her owner René Rodriguez, a Vietnam veteran.

"She was starving and dirty," an elated Rodriguez, 65, said Thursday evening. "As soon as she got in the car, she fell asleep and started snoring like she hadn't slept in years."

Bambi — BB for short — had been missing since 6 p.m. Saturday. Rodriguez's wife, Mimi, 66, said she cried every day and the couple offered a $500 reward for her return.

Both Rodriguez's suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD. The couple got BB as a puppy more than a year ago from a kennel in Tennessee, and hired professionals to train her as a service dog.
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