Pets Without Parents

Founded in June 2001, Pets Without Parents (Columbus, Ohio 43214) is a non-profit, no-kill, all-breed pet shelter. Its mission is to create a community that nurtures and respects companion animals, and to someday see that every pet is loved. In order to create such a community, Pets Without Parents functions as a pet adoption shelter, [...]

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Victory Gallop

Victory Gallop (Bath, Ohio 44210), a non-profit organization, was founded in 1995 by Co-Directors Sue Miller and Kim Gustely, in addition to David Miller, DVM, who provides complete medical care for the horses. Victory Gallop provides many program participants with their first taste of wide open spaces, riding trails through beautiful woods and meandering streams, [...]

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Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers, Inc.

Southwest Canine Corps of Volunteers (Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a group of dog owners who love their dogs and have trained them to visit patients in nursing homes, hospitals, and other facilities. Samuel Green Founded in 1988, SCCV now has over 125 members visiting in approximately 30 facilities throughout the Albuquerque metro area. If you [...]

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PAWS for LOVE

PAWS for LOVE (Reno, Nevada 89515) visits local hospitals, nursing homes, and other facilities providing companionship and unconditional love to people of all ages. An affiiliate of Therapy Dogs, Inc. (Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003), PAWS for LOVE promotes happiness and healing by bringing canine friendship to those in need. PAWS for LOVE has approximately 75 teams [...]

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Bark Avenue On Parade Therapy Dogs

Bark Avenue On Parade Therapy Dogs (Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota) is a non-profit organization dedicated to conducting pet-assisted therapy; the sensory and social interaction of friendly, trained therapeutic dog/handler teams with people who may be isolated due to age, illness, or disability. Bark Avenue’s regular visit schedule includes four monthly visits at three area hospitals. Bark [...]

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Charles County Pets On Wheels

Charles County Pets On Wheels (Pomfret, Maryland 20675) was founded in June 1996 to arrange for volunteers and their pets to visit residents of nursing homes and provide pet facility therapy. The emphasis of Charles County Pets on Wheels is on serving patients who have been unresponsive to ongoing activities. Many of these patients have [...]

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Pets On Wheels of Prince George’s County, Maryland

Pets On Wheels (Brandywine, Maryland 20613) is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing friendly pet visits for residents and seniors of nursing care and assisted living facilities, adult day care centers, and schools for handicapped children. Residents of these institutions often receive no visitors, and are lonely and depressed; some are only able to respond [...]

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WAGS Pet Therapy of Kentucky

WAGS Pet Therapy of Kentucky (Louisville, Kentucky 40291) is a non-profit, all-volunteer group affiliated with the Delta Society, a national organization that promotes and sanctions the use of Animal Assisted Activities (AAA) and Animal Assisted Therapy (AAT) and many pet therapy organizations throughout the country. WAGS Pet Therapy teams visit a number of facilities in [...]

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Rainbow Animal Assisted Therapy

Giving special children an opportunity to smile, to learn, to grow; that’s why Rainbow Animal Assisted Therapy (Addison, Illinois 60101) was organized in 1987. Since then, the honest, gentle, and unconditional love of its dogs has touched thousands of lives. Rainbow dogs can turn tears to smiles, frowns to laughs, discouragement to excitement, and pain [...]

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Happy Tails Pet Therapy

Happy Tails Pet Therapy (Roswell, Georgia 30076) is a group of pet owners with a common goal: to volunteer time to share the unconditional love and joy pets can give to patients and residents at a variety of facilities. A young boy in the hospital, temporarily confined to a wheelchair due to multiple injuries, smiles [...]

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