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Missy the Lab is this School’s Best Friend

Monday, May 24, 2010

Three years ago Charles Hay Elementary School in Englewood, Colo., adopted Missy, a Black Lab, from a local animal shelter. The students wanted a school dog and the staff found that the impact of a canine for teaching kids was very beneficial. At 8 weeks old, Missy became the school mascot.
Then the staff realized that [...]

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Sammy the Painting Dog – ShoreServiceDogs.com

Monday, November 9, 2009

Shore Service Dogs was created to provide second chances for both people and dogs in need of assistance. Located in Maryland, SSD brings abandoned, and abused dogs, into the founder’s home and custom trains them to become Service Dogs for people with mobility disabilities.
Shore Service Dogs specializes in training rescued dogs whenever possible to become [...]

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4 Paws for Ability

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Many families with young children typically have no place else to turn as many organizations either have waiting lists or age specific requirements. Karen Shirk, the Executive Director of 4 Paws for Ability, knows this from her personal experience. In the late 1990’s, Karen was searching for a service dog but was turned down by [...]

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Puppies Behind Bars helping Iraq Vets

Monday, July 13, 2009

Meet a golden retriever named Tuesday who is helping an Iraq war veteran with severe post-traumatic stress in a The Wall Street Journal story, ‘Sit! Stay! Snuggle!’: An Iraq Vet Finds His Dog Tuesday .
As a “Seeing Eye dog for the mind,” Tuesday is a psychiatric-service dog trained to help Luis Carlos Montalvan, a retired [...]

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RxPets

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Prescription Pet Program
at Children’s Hospital
The award-winning Prescription Pet Program (also known as RxPets) is a dog-assisted therapy and visitation program which began in 1984 as a cooperative effort of The Children’s Hospital and the Denver Area Veterinary Medical Society (DAVMS). Specially-trained volunteer dog owners take their dogs on rounds at The Children’s Hospital.
In 1978, [...]

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Freedom Service Dogs

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Freedom Service Dogs, Inc. rescues dogs from shelters and trains each dog to assist people with disabilities. The custom trained service dogs assist their partners in day-to-day activities providing their human companions with a greater degree of independence and an overall higher quality of life.
FSD was founded in 1987 as a nonprofit 501(c)3 [...]

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Red Alert Dogs for Diabetics (R.A.D.D.)

Friday, March 13, 2009

The other day one of Leaving Our Mark’s followers, Kids Are Heroes and Gabe O’Neill on Twitter alerted me to a 13-year-old boy in Denver, CO named Mark who has a little brother with Type 1 diabetes. They have a service dog named Red that alerts when Jason’s blood sugar gets too high or [...]

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C.A.R.E.S. (Canine Assisted Reduction of Eventful Stress)

Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Kelly, a friend and great advocate for dogs, told me about another awesome program and person who is leaving her mark and helping dogs and people.
The C.A.R.E.S (Canine Assisted Reduction of Eventful Stress) program assists trauma victims to recover in a unique and special way with the assistance of specially trained therapy dogs. This [...]

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Gabriel’s Angels

Friday, January 23, 2009

Gabriel’s Angels believes that the bond between a therapy dog and a child is strong enough to break the cycle of violence.
The nonprofit group’s teams of volunteers and their dogs regularly visit children in crisis nurseries, domestic violence shelters, group homes and homeless shelters in the Phoenix, Arizona and Tucson, Arizona. Their mission is to [...]

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