A Vet Dog greets a service member at the airport

If you’re looking for a good cause to help you convert some year-end dollars into a tax deduction, it would be hard to beat America’s Vet Dogs.

The organization, an offshoot of the Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind, provides service and guide dogs for use by current and former military personnel. The roles the dogs play are many and varied.

• Service dogs that provide balance or stability support (usually with a balance harness) for amputees, and who fetch and retrieve dropped items for vets who have difficulty bending
• Guide dogs for blinded vets
• Seizure or fall alert assistance dogs, especially for veterans who have suffered traumatic brain injury
• “K-9 therapists” deployed to the battlefield to help prevent and control the stress of living in a combat zone
• Greeters who welcome lonely vets as they travel
• Bridges to the outside world for wounded vets who often otherwise recover in isolation

See what I mean? If you’re a dog lover, you know how much difference a dog can make. Check out America’s Vet Dogs and you’ll see why the dyslectic might have it right.*

* You know, by spelling “god” d-o-g