Canine Companions for Independence has been providing assistance dogs to people with disabilities since 1975. You can help us unite people with trained assistance dogs in a powerful program that leads to greater independence. Every assistance dog starts as a puppy that needs a loving home. You can raise a dog and change a life. Volunteer puppy raising is an incredible way to help children and adults with disabilities live more independent lives.
- Pick up dropped items, like keys and cell phones
- Reach the light switch and turn lights on and off
- Open and close doors and drawers
- raise a puppy for 15 months
- feed it, love it and teach it
- tell a friend about us
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“This moment is more than I could ever ask for,” shares volunteer puppy raiser Peggy Jensen. As a volunteer puppy raiser, Peggy lives for one moment. To see the puppy she raised with a graduate. Peggy experienced this life changing moment for the first time in 1994, when the puppy she raised, Tally graduated as a skilled companion to assist a teenage boy with cerebral palsy. |
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“Walking in the door, and seeing Tally with his graduate for the first time was so beautiful. I had to close the door and go cry my eyes out before I could go back in,” Peggy continues. |
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Since this moment in 1994, Peggy has gone on to raise a total of fourteen puppies and is currently raising puppy number fifteen. Peggy continues to raise puppies to give them a chance to change a life of a person with disabilities, but also because each puppy and the volunteer experience, changes her own life. |
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