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!
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!
We are raising the funds to purchase one particular health guaranteed puppy to raise as our first potential stud dog, who will be the future of service dogs helping the disabled in our community. This 5 week old puppy, PAD Gunner, comes from generations of champion dogs ranging from obedience titles, show titles, and hunting titles. Bred by <Creekside Kennels in North Carolina.
Each of these areas are uniquely important for an assistance dog stud. Champion obedience titles show a desire to learn and obey commands, while champion hunting titles show natural desire to retrieve and have a gentle mouth. Equally importantly, the champion show titles show solid physical stature which is crucial for pulling a wheelchair and mobility work. In addition, this puppy has multiple generations of health tests dogs in his background and comes with a solid “hip contract” meaning they guarantee his hips to be free of Degenerative Joint Disease.
In order to continue meeting the needs of individuals living with a broad range of disabilities, we are working towards starting a small breeding program. This small breeding program will provide our program with puppies of suitable health and temperament in order for us to continue with our mission – to locate, raise and train dogs to provide greater independence to individuals living with a broad range of disabilities as well as to mentor and teach individuals that are training an assistance dog either for themselves or for a loved one. To read more about our program, and what sets us apart from other assistance dog programs please go to our <website.
Puppy cost
Flight for pick up and delivery
Veterinary costs for 2 years
Basic Training Gear
Quality dog food for 2 years
Hip, Elbow and Health Clearances at 2
To contribute, please go to our <FundRazr page! Or email us at info [at] padcentral.org for alternative ways to contribute, more information, or with questions!
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:
The possibility of Hurricane Sandy hitting our area has caused us to discuss emergency evacuations and over all safety.
Assistance Dogs are permitted to enter any shelter, but we still encourage our teams to be fully prepared by also knowing where pets are permitted if they need to evacuate and the local shelter does not understand the law regarding assistance dogs. If teams are denied access, they can call the National Red Cross 24 hour access number, 1-866-GET INFO.
A service dog is defined under the American’s With Disabilities Act as a guide dog, signal dog, or any other animal individually trained to provide assistance to an individual with a disability. Assistance Dogs represent a specific group, different from pets or other animals such as therapy dogs.
The Red Cross specifically allows an individual with a disability the use of an assistance dog in its disaster or evacuation shelters; or we will make special arrangements to accommodate the individual, together with the assistance dog, within the facility or in another appropriate facility. In all such circumstances, the care and supervision of the service animal is the responsibility of the individual, and not that of Red Cross.
We recommend that partners put no less than one week of dog food in their fully fueled vehicle ahead of time, and packing the following:
PAD Beamer is an incredible 8 month old Golden Retriever puppy, who was tested and pulled from a rescue in PA in order to begin assistance dog training with his teenage owner trainer. Beamer is learning the necessary skills to become a Hearing Dog and is excelling in all areas. His owner trainer is a senior in high school and volunteers with Delaware Valley Golden Retriever Rescue in her spare time!
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