Welcome to Down the Leash Service Dogs Shop. We are a veteran run nonprofit organization helping veterans in the southern Illinois area. We provide a safe environment for our nation’s heroes, teaching them basic and advanced dog handling skills for their own service dogs. No veteran that comes through our door will pay a dime for proper training of their service partners. Our goal is to ultimately decrease the number of veteran suicides that is plaguing our nation’s heroes by helping to give them a real sense of purpose through our program. We are also in the process of creating a network of other like minded companies that share the same passion as us in helping our veterans.