HOLMES: Well, you hear a lot about coming back from war with posttraumatic stress. Well, what about the dogs? The canines exhibiting posttraumatic stress? Listen to this story here. Man's best friend, we're told now, coming back to the same kind of scars that many of the other soldiers come back with. Canine handlers and vets say they're seeing military dogs now with posttraumatic stress. A lot of people wondering, well, how can you tell? There's a 4- year-old German Shepherd, bomb-sniffing dog, has been in intensive therapy after the time the dog spent in Iraq. Handlers say she actually got spooked after her convoy got hit with IEDs. They went on raids and essentially the dog shut it down, put on brakes, would not be involved, was not the same dog before. Withdrawn, hypervigilant, even said the dog had nightmares. Scientists say brains fear mechanisms in dogs, cats, people as well. So this is a real possibility for this to happen in dogs. And Gina's (ph) recovery is going pretty well right now, we are told by her people, dealing better with a lot of situations. But about 2,500 dogs are attached to the military doing this type of detection, bomb detection over in Iraq, Afghanistan as well. So it's not just the soldiers coming back with issues. Some of their dogs as well.
Dogs of War Coming Home With PTSD