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Bringing Dogs to Heal: Care for Veterans with PTSD
TIME, Sunday, Dec. 05, 2010
Staff sergeant1 Brad Fasnacht was clearing mines on an Afghan road a year ago when an IED 2 blast
broke his spine and both ankles and put him in a two-week stupor that ended only when he woke
up, 7,000 miles away, at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington. The explosion had
knocked his helmeted head so violently, he suffered a traumatic brain injury, which exacerbates his
posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Although Army doctors and nurses have been able to get the
26-year-old walking again, he has had to call in a specialist — Sapper, an Australian cattle dog mix
— to help tackle his PTSD.
"He has changed my life," Fasnacht says of the 1-year-old mutt, whose name is shorthand for
"combat engineer," Fasnacht's Army job. Sapper goes with him whenever he leaves his Silver
Spring, Md., apartment, something he was terrified of doing until he got his canine companion in
April. Three combat tours and two Purple Hearts 3 had left him in a state of hypervigilance,
constantly scanning suburban streets and trees for snipers. War had made him wary of crowds —
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2 Improvised Explosive Device
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and even of individuals who got a little too close. "I'd just freak out, getting really uneasy," he says.
"But not anymore." The speckled dog calms Fasnacht's anxieties and keeps them from
mushrooming into panic attacks. Part bodyguard, part therapist, Sapper also serves as an extra set of
eyes and ears. "I've lost some of my hearing, but Sapper alerts me if someone is coming up behind
me," he says. When Fasnacht is sleeping, the dog will wake him from a nightmare by licking his
face.
As researchers test high-tech PTSD treatments (such as hyperbaric oxygen chambers and virtualreality exposure therapy), a low-tech alternative is emerging in the form of man's best friend.
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