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Guide Dog Users of Canada (GDUC) helps guide dog users to maximize the benefits of mobility with a guide dog so that they may participate more fully in Canadian society. Open to guide dog users and all those interested in furthering their cause, GDUC intends to become a voice for Canadian guide dog users and a centre of excellence on the activities, needs, and accomplishments of persons who are blind, partially sighted, or deaf-blind, and assisted by guide dogs. Step out with us and let us work together to make a difference for guide dog teams in Canada. Join Guide Dog Users of Canada!

California Paws Rescue is a non-profit organization that saves, rehabilitates and finds qualified, loving homes for orphaned, abandoned, abused and often times medically challenged, blind or even handicapped dogs who face imminent shelter euthanasia here in the Coachella Valley.

BC Guide Dog Services began the professional training of guide dogs for blind & visually impaired British Columbians in 1996. In 2001, B.C. Guide Dog Services became full members of the International Guide Dog Federation, an international accrediting body. In 2002, B.C. Guide Dog Services registered the title Alberta Guide Dog Services for the purposes of providing guide dogs to blind & visually impaired Albertans. The goal of BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services is, by the year 2020, to have a working guide dog population of 250 guide dog teams. The working life of a guide dog team is about eight years, therefore, BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services will need to have graduated a cumulative total of 395 guide dog teams by 2020 to achieve this goal. BC & Alberta Guide Dog Services gives priority to blind & visually impaired youths between the ages of 13 and 18 years. Alberta Guide Dog Services, PO Box 5471, Stn A, Calgary, AB T2H 1X8 Tel: 403-258-0819.

We rescue and rehome dogs (primarily) from local hi-kill shelters. We focus on but are not limited to special needs animals (deaf, blind, otherwise disabled and seniors). We provide foster homes to start and provide whatever it takes (rehab, medical, training etc) to make sure the animal never ever goes back into the shelter system. We are available to our adopters for the life of the animal, should they need assistance.

We are one of only 5 schools in Canada that trains guide dogs for the blind. We are the second organization in the country to train dogs specifically for children with autism. We also train service dogs for people with a variety of physical challenges such as cerebral palsy, spinal chord injuries and more. Unique to Dogs with Wings is our in home training program. Our mobility trainers travel to the client's home to establish routines of home, work and school. We are the only school that trains this way, all others have the client travel to the school and live in residence for up to 28 days.

Milo's Sanctuary is a no-kill special needs cat rescue. We take in those that are blind, have physical disabilities, are seniors, have been abused or are suffering from a terminal illness. These special needs often prevent them from being adopted into a “normal” home. For these cats, we provide a Lifetime Care Program by giving them a permanent home and any medical care that they may need to live out the remainder of their natural lives in a safe, loving and healthy environment. To ensure that these cats receive everything they need for quality of life we have a sponsorship program where anyone can sponsor one of our Lifetime Care Cats.

We mainly specialize in very old dachshunds pulled from shelters, puppy mill dachshunds, and severely disabled dachshunds that require ongoing medical care, We have blind and deaf, and 7 with IVDD and countless that have come here for hospice care. The sanctuary is run out of our home. The dogs have free run of our home. We have adopted out 41 some dogs and helped another 47 to the bridge in the last 10 years. We have tried to provide the best last chapter for these dogs so that when it is time to go to the bridge they have known love, they have been owned, they had a name, they have known the feel of a warm bed (mostly my bed). Each of our departed dogs were held in my arms as they passed and each one broke our hearts but we saw them through all the way to the end. This is the hardest part of rescue or any pet ownership and we are proud of all of our work.

Our Mission: To help those who have served our country honorably live with dignity and independence. The service dog programs of America’s VetDogs® were created to provide enhanced mobility and renewed independence to veterans, active-duty service members, and first responders with disabilities, allowing them to once again live with pride and self-reliance. Not only does a service dog provide support with daily activities, it provides the motivation to tackle new challenges. VetDogs trains and places guide dogs for individuals who are blind or have low vision; PTSD service dogs to help mitigate the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder; hearing dogs for those who have lost their hearing later in life; service dogs for those with other physical disabilities, and facility dogs as part of the rehabilitation process in military and VA hospitals. It costs over $50,000 to breed, raise, train, and place one assistance dog; however, all of VetDogs’ services are provided at no charge to the individual. Funding comes from the generosity of individuals, corporations, foundations, businesses, and service and fraternal clubs. Once they make the decision to get a service dog, applicants become part of VetDogs’ open and welcoming community. They are supported with an uncompromised commitment to excellence, from highly empathetic and certified trainers to a meticulously constructed curriculum. VetDogs teams each student with the dog that’s right for them – and the power of their bond makes ordinary moments extraordinary. Crossing the street independently becomes a moment of liberation. Traveling alone becomes a welcome adventure. Embracing new experiences becomes an everyday occurrence. America’s VetDogs launched in 2003 as a project of the Guide Dog Foundation. In 2006, it became a separate 501(c)(3) corporation; the two organizations continue to share staff and other resources to ensure people with disabilities receive the best services possible. With an assistance dog from America's VetDogs by their side, a hero is never alone. With their courage and determination, these remarkable teams reconnect us all to the highest form of freedom there is: the freedom to experience the world around us in any way we choose, and to live without boundaries.

PROMOTING INCREASED INDEPENDENCE TO MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE BLIND BY PROVIDING THEM WITH HIGHEST QUALITY GUIDE DOGS.

Protection and Welfare of all animals and their environment. Spay and neuter programes. Education, awareness. Love to the forgotten, comfort to the sick and care for the blind, deaf and dying. Changing lives.

TO RESCUE SHELTER ANIMALS AND PREPARE THEM FOR ADOPTION WITH MEDICAL TREATMENT, TESTING, SPAYING OR NEUTERING, ETC., AND THEN TO PLACE THEM IN PERMANENT HOMES. TO CARE FOR UNADOPTABLE ANIMALS (BLIND, DEAFM DISABLED, ETC.) UNTIL END OF LIFE. TO TRANSPORT ANIMALS FOR OTHER RESCUE GROUPS/SHELTERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHERN VIRGINIA TOAREAS WHERE THEY WILL BE ADOPTED.

To rescue, rehabilitate, & train homeless, neglected & disabled farm animals; focusing their primary attention on miniature horses and smaller ponies. That after rehabilitation can in time be adopted out to a loving and lifelong home; where they will be able to live out their life in a loving, caring and healthy environment. As a part of our organization, they are a sanctuary to several disabled equine & other farm animals suffering from disabilities; being crippled, blind, with a lifelong disability or illness.