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For 24 hours — 10 a.m. Sept. 30 until 10 a.m. Oct. 1 — the Petersen Events Center in the Oakland neighborhood of the city will be a cyclist’s dream as Team Foster, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit dedicated to connecting veterans with service dogs, hosts the third Ruff Ride in Pittsburgh.
The service dog in training will soon be paired with a veteran.
Major, a 10-week-old black Labrador puppy, was welcomed to the club's off-the-field roster at Citizens Bank Park as a new service pup-in-training.
The money raised will help train and place three service dogs.
Local Marine veteran Craig Hodgkins had his suicide planned out before his service dog changed everything.