Jacksonville PTSD Veteran On Wait List for Service Dog

Local vet just wants to go to the grocery store 
First Coast News
Jeannie Blaylock
May 1, 2015

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Let's say you're craving ribs or chocolate chip cookies. What do you do? Head to the grocery store of course. And so a trip to the grocery store is no big deal to most of us, but it is to many of our veterans dealing with PTSD. In fact, to them it can be a nightmare.

James Rutland is a 12-year veteran who lives in Jacksonville. Obviously a sharp guy, Rutland is frustrated with the 41 pills he got from the VA.

He says they just throw him into a zombie state. His medical diagnosis of PTSD, however, enabled him to apply for K9s for Warriors, a local non-profit which matches trained and certified service dogs to veterans.

Rutland visited with the K9s staff and put in his application. He recently found out he's been accepted into the program.

The problem? He has to be on the waiting list until January 2016.

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