We know it doesn't make for an interesting read, but we've just officially updated our Terms and Conditions as we're getting ready for our website update. We're posting them here so everyone can read through them. Don't worry, most of it is just common sense and standard legal verbiage that goes into any website. Of course, use of our website, your 10 Digit Identification Number, Archival Documentation Package and Patches are subject to these terms.

We've been recommended by a lot of organizations, but this one makes us the happiest. We just found out today we're included on the Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation Paralysis Resource Center List. The foundation promotes the health and well-being of people living with a spinal cord injury, mobility impairment and paralysis by providing comprehensive information, resources and referral services.

Here’s some great news. The American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO) is going to be giving free eye exams to documented working dogs durring the week of May 3-9, 2009. Over 180 board certified veterinary ophthalmologists are going to donate their time and services.

We're happy to announce that the United States Service Dog Registry is on Twitter! We're going to be Tweeting service and assistance dog news from around the world as well as information about ourselves. We hope you add us to your mobile device or your computer.

Sure, it's not a Service Dog event but it's still fun. And if you're looking for someone to root for, we suggest D'Artagnan, one of the top five Bouviers des Flandres in the nation — and also a certified Service Dog who helps his handler, Tracy Turner.

This just in: animals are able to exhibit a wide range of emotions. I’m sure you’re shocked. But there’s more to it than that and it’s pretty fascinating.

This morning CNN reported on a new technology from the Center for Healthcare Robotics at Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s a 5 foot tall gray metal robot called El-E (pronounced Ellie) and it’s being designed to help assist with patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. See El-E in action.

During the month of September the United States Service Dog Registry invited everyone to write in with their suggestions about how they would like to see the the registry improved. And we had an amazing response—bigger than we had anticipated! We want to warmly thank all of you who wrote in with your suggestions (and many compliments)! We're still going through all of our e-mails, categorizing suggestions and tabulating votes for specific things. We also want to remind everyone that not all of your suggestions will be able to be included either because of cost issues or because they will compromise privacy. But we do have a few exciting things that we are ready to say will be officially included in the next update: