OUR 2024 CALENDAR

Our our award winning 2024 Calendar is now available to order!

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SPONSOR A PUPPY

Meet ROMEO! Romeo is one of our SuperStar Puppies! He is currently training to become a fully Qualified Assistance Dog. Your Puppy Sponsorship directly supports Romeo through this 2 year journey.

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85% of our applicants are children living with a physical disability and the difference one of our highly trained assistance dogs makes is priceless. We depend almost entirely on donors like you and receive very little government funding!

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OUR JOURNEY

Since 2007, we have been ethically breeding and training specially selected assistance dogs to carry out a range of practical tasks to assist profoundly disabled children and adults in order to achieve greater independence.

Our Journey…

LET US HELP YOU

We train our assistance dogs to assist with practical, everyday tasks to help a person with a disability to live life to the full, breaking down barriers to the outside world and helping to improve confidence and stress levels.

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TOGETHER WE MAKE A DIFFERENCE

We are very community focused and our assistance dogs are actively involved in Prisons, Schools, Adolescent Therapy and Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation. We are the only charity globally we know of that have a prison breeding programme.

Together We Make a Difference

HELP US

Each of our very special assistance dogs costs €15,000 to raise, train and care for over their entire lifetime. Our assistance dogs are provided to disabled partners free of charge and we depend almost entirely on donors like you and receive very little government funding!

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WHY WE ARE DIFFERENT

Dogs for the Disabled was founded in 2007 due to a dire need for this type of service.

We listen, we care and everything we do, we do from our hearts. We are are determined to make a positive impact in the lives of those who come to us.

We have a very strict policy that no money passes hands for any dog for any specific child or adult. This is to ensure we retain legal ownership of each dog, which enables us to maintain their welfare and also so that there is no unfair advantage to anyone. However we ask post qualification that the families get involved in any way they can, so that another child or adult could benefit from a gift of an assistance dog like they did!

We are currently partners on two research studies – with TCD and the Dublin Neurological Institute – where an evaluation of the benefits of Assistance Dogs is being undertaken.

We are 100% committed to ethical breeding and training and treating everyone with dignity and respect.

Jennifer Dowler,
Founder,
Dogs for the Disabled

OUR SEARCH FOR A NEW HOME

OUR SUPPORTERS

PETER O’MAHONY

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THE IRELAND FUNDS

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BURNS PET NUTRITION

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C&R PRINT

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RTE Toy Show Appeal

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