This Monday is our annual Cyber Monday Online Auction with over 175 incredible items to bid on!
Join us online (www.facebook.com/padcentral) this Monday from 11am to 11pm to shop! Shopping is easy, simply post your bid with you email address as a comment on the photo! And 100% of proceeds benefit Phoenix Assistance Dogs of Central PA and are fully tax deductible!
We have incredible items from Burt’s Bees, Benebone, Starbucks, Troeg’s Brewery, and so much more!
We are proud to announce PAD’s Patriots – assistance dogs for the dedicated U.S. Military Veterans that live with disabilities. Whether the Veteran is living with a physical disability or PTSD, all of us at PAD are grateful for their service and want to give back by providing them with a highly trained assistance dog.
Disabled Veterans receive their PAD Patriot assistance dog for only $1,000 and are always placed at the top of the waiting list. If you know of a veteran in need, feel free to direct them to our website.
PAD’s Patriots can be trained to:
If you’re local to Lancaster, dine with us on Wednesday, March 11th from 5pm – 9pm at Isaacs (4 Crosswinds Drive, Lititz, behind Pizza Hut!) and 25% of your bill to be donated to our program! Take out and gift cards purchased during that time also count! Don’t forget your voucher though – only diners with our voucher count!
LPN Stephanie Merrell sees first hand how assistance dogs benefit her patients:
Service dogs have played a vital role in creating independence in many of my patients. People without disabilities often take for granted small things, like being able to pick up something they’ve dropped. Without a service dogs assistance, this can be an insurmountable task for someone with a disability. Not only do they provide comfort and companionship, but they help instill confidence that their owner can achieve both large and small daily living tasks.
To download and print, right mouse click and go to file, print! The fliers are double sided and 2 per page, so invite a friend – please!
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What will your donation go towards within PAD? PAD is 100% volunteer based, meaning your donation goes directly towards our dogs in training and not a salary! Some of our costs are:
Last time we raised almost $400 at Isaacs! Let’s try to raise $500 this year!
After years of focusing solely on rescue and shelter puppies/dogs, we have decided to begin working with very small, highly devoted breeders to grow our program. We don’t take breeding lightly, and will continue to always work closely with the community to bring in suitable puppies and dogs from our local shelters, rescues and as in the past, even test dogs within families that are in need of placing them. Unfortunately, the dogs within the community that are suitable for assistance dog work are hard to come by and our waiting list for assistance dogs is growing by the month. So in order to meet the needs of our local individuals with disabilities we have made this choice to begin working with breeders. We do not have any specific breeding plans currently, but wanted to share the news with you as you are sure to see some changes in the future!
PAD Davy visited our wonderful veterinarians today because we were concerned with one of his eyes. Our team was very disheartened to learn that sweet Davy has entropion in one of his eyes that requires surgery. Thankfully, the veterinarians are positive that with surgery, PAD Davy will be able to continue training with PAD and have no lasting affects! If you’d like to read about entropion, you can click <here.
PAD Davy’s medication prior to surgery (scheduled for 2/19/13), surgery itself, and post op medications will be approximately $1,500. Please consider making a small donation to help Davy get back to his training! You can donate by clicking below or email us (info[at]padcentral.org) if you’d like to donate directly to the veterinary clinic!
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PAD Davy is an incredible 7 month old Labradoodle puppy, who was donated by the wonderful breeder Bad Company Labradoodles. For those of you that know PAD Charming Charlie, the same breeder graciously donated him, too! After volunteer trainers Alicia Gautille and Laura Stumpf tested his litter, he was chosen and began training in PAD’s small puppy program. PAD Davy Jones’ Locker (named after the pirate because he was donated on National Talk Like a Pirate Day) is learning the necessary skills to become a solid working dog. Around 1 year he will meet any potential partners on our waiting list, and be preliminarily matched with the most suited partner. Once matched he will be trained for the specific needs which could be: pulling a manual wheelchair, alerting to sounds, retrieving out of reach items and more!
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Our waiting list of partners in need of a life saving fully trained assistance dog is growing, which means we need to grow the size of our Puppy Program! Before we begin the search for more puppies, we need to recruit and train valuable volunteer Puppy Trainers! Please consider how allowing a puppy to come into your home for approximately 2 years can change someones life forever!
We have more to be thankful for than we could ever blog about, but we’re especially thankful for our trainers, volunteers, partners, supporters and especially our canines! If you have an assistance dog or pet dog at home, please take a second to read over this great flier of common dangerous things around the Holiday!
Our incredible Online ONLY Auction begins at midnight tonight! For the complete information and rules go <here!
On our <Facebook fanpage we’ve announced one of the larger items each day, leading up to today! Incase you missed the announcements, the items are:
We will be hosting our first ever Online Auction to benefit our training program! The auction will run for 24 hours, beginning at 12:00am Thursday, November 15th and ending promptly at 12:00am Friday, November 16th.
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The auction will be a Facebook photo album on our fanpage (www.facebook.com/
ADDITIONAL NEWS!!
The highest 50 winning bidders (on 50 individual items) will also receive:
-1 gift certificate for $50 off of any new session booked with Beth Cardwell Photography
-1 gift certificate for $25 off of Nannies At Your Service
PAYMENTS
All items must be paid in full within 24 hours. We will accept PayPal, the only exception is for locally delivered payments in cash or check (local payment still must be paid within 24 hours). $4.00 shipping fee added to the total bid for each item, unless otherwise stated in specific item description.
SHIPPING
All orders will be shipped USPS priority mail, unless otherwise specified on the specific item. Shipping confirmations will be sent. We reserve 5 business days to mail each item. (remember, we are a small program and will do our best to mail them on Friday!)
If you have any questions regarding the auction or the rules regarding the auction please private message or email us [email protected]
AUCTION RULES:
We will have 2 to 3 moderators for the auction to help manage all posts and bids. We encourage everyone that plans to bid to send us (Phoenix Assistance Dogs) a private message or email with your Full Name, Address, and Phone Number to help expedite shipping.
Do not bid if you do not have the finances to back up your bid.
All items will have a $4.00 shipping fee (to be added to the highest bid). No exceptions unless otherwise stated in the item descriptions.
Whole dollar bids ideal but not required.
No bids outside of the USA please.
Bids must be paid in full within 24 hours or preceding bidder will be announced as winner.
Bids to be paid by PayPal, unless locally delivered in cash or check (local payment still must be paid within 24 hours).
Moderators will use Facebook’s timestamp to determine which bid is the winner. Moderates have final say, no exceptions.
Auction will run for 24 hours, and begins at 12:00am Thursday, November 15th and ends promptly at 12:00am Friday, November 16th.
PAYMENTS
All items must be paid in full within 24 hours. We will accept PayPal, the only exception is for locally delivered payments in cash or check (local payment still must be paid within 24 hours). $4.00 shipping fee added to the total bid for each item, unless otherwise stated in specific item description.
SHIPPING
All orders will be shipped USPS priority mail, unless otherwise specified on the specific item. Shipping confirmations will be sent. We reserve 5 business days to mail each item. (remember, we are a small program and will do our best to mail them on Friday!)
If you have any questions regarding the auction or the rules regarding the auction please private message or email us [email protected]
