{"id":48758,"date":"2025-03-06T13:50:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/?p=48758"},"modified":"2025-04-04T11:02:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T16:02:41","slug":"warriors-best-friend-meet-gregory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/blog\/culture\/lifestyle\/warriors-best-friend-meet-gregory\/","title":{"rendered":"Warriors\u2019 Best Friend: Meet Gregory!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Diamond is a proud partner of Warriors\u2019 Best Friend, a nonprofit organization that professionally trains service dogs for veterans, service members and students. Through Operation Enrichment, Diamond is providing a consistent source of balanced nutrition to Warriors\u2019 Best Friends\u2019 canine recruits, giving them all the sustenance they need to succeed. Here we meet one of the canine recruits and learn about their journey from shelter rescue to trained service dog.<\/em><\/p>\n

When you\u2019re highly motivated and eager to please, work never really seems like \u201cwork.\u201d And that\u2019s the case with Gregory, a gentle and friendly 2-year-old boxer\/Labrador mix who lives to work \u2014 whether there are treats involved or not.<\/p>\n

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Gregory joined the Warriors\u2019 Best Friend training program after being adopted from Independence Animal Services in Independence, MO. He has a calm and friendly demeanor, is very patient and leans in closely for affection. He adores all creatures, big and small, is fiercely loyal and endlessly loving.<\/p>\n

When he\u2019s in training mode, Gregory loves to show off his favorite commands: \u201cunder\u201d and \u201ccomfort.\u201d Gregory is intelligent and confident, loves to learn new things and is laser-focused while training \u2014 nothing distracts him while he\u2019s working. He\u2019s always ready for anything that comes his way, and his best motivation is pleasing his handler!<\/p>\n

\"Gregory,<\/p>\n

Playful Gregory is wonderful with humans of all ages and loves his weekly trips to school where he receives endless pets and attention. When Gregory isn\u2019t working, he plays chase with his canine friends, shares toys or explores all the smells and sights of the great outdoors on his daily walks.<\/p>\n

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Gregory will soon complete his training and be ready to pawsitively impact the lives of schoolchildren. Learn more about Operation Enrichment \u2014 our partnership with Warriors\u2019 Best Friend<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Diamond is a proud partner of Warriors\u2019 Best Friend, a nonprofit organization that professionally trains service dogs for veterans, service members and students. Through Operation Enrichment, Diamond is providing a consistent source of balanced nutrition to Warriors\u2019 Best Friends\u2019 canine recruits, giving them all the sustenance they need to succeed. Here we meet one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":48761,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"Warriors\u2019 Best Friend: Meet Gregory!","_seopress_titles_desc":"Discover Gregory\u2019s journey from shelter rescue to service dog with Warriors\u2019 Best Friend. Learn how he\u2019s making a difference with Operation Enrichment!","_seopress_robots_index":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[158,278],"tags":[134,10,54,911],"class_list":["post-48758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-lifestyle","tag-diamond-pet-foods","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-warriors-best-friend"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondpet.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}