Watch: Paws for Purple Hearts trains service dogs for veterans in Pierce County

We are at PAWS for Purple Hearts. We are service dog organizations that train service dogs for veterans with service-connected disabilities. Today we went over some of our commands for our service dogs in training, all the way from retrieving items, all the way to nightmare interruption and some of the basics in between. We'll walk into the office area and I'll show you guys what that would look like if we were coming into the office in the morning. I'm going I'm going to send her over there to pull that door open, and that's just... Any door we can put tugs on, they can learn how to open them and help get their person through the walkways. Yes, good girl. Thank you. We're on our way in, and we're going to go turn on our lights and go to our desk. Yes, good girl. The other huge thing that they learn is to retrieve all different kinds of items. Their person could be drop anything and they need to be able to learn to pick that up. So we teach them to pick up all sorts of different items. Sunglasses are my favorite because I drop them all the time. So the dogs learn to pick them up for me on a regular basis. And she's going to do lay on, deep pressure. If I'm really having a kind of a panic attack, she is the best weighted blanket on the planet. So she's just very skilled at this task in particular. All right. She loves it and so that is the first step in us starting our nightmare interruption. Sometimes she'll kind of nudge your hands. For the most part she just tries to stay pretty solid on top of you and make sure you're okay. You want to go practice? Let's go.