Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) breeds, raises, and trains fully certified assistance dogs that support people with disabilities and community care providers.
NEWS & STORIES
Development Coordinator | Position Filled
PADS is hiring for a newly created position of Fundraising Coordinator. This is a full-time position, based in Calgary, Alberta.
Calgary Release
PADS Calgary is looking for a new home! Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) is appealing to the Calgary community to help us find a new home from which to train life-changing dogs. After 6 years subletting from our friends at Chasin’ Tails, in the Meridian...
PADS AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS | 2022
PADS 2022 Financial Statements were audited by Crowe Mackay LLP
our supporters
PADS is more than 90% volunteer-driven
We thrive off the passion of the people who have decided to join the PADS Family.
PADS currently runs volunteer programs in the BC Lower Mainland & Okanagan as well as in Calgary, AB., and is a fully accredited member of Assistance Dogs International.
pupdates
FOLLOW OUR ADVENTURES
Our pups are always adventuring. Follow along each month to see what they’re up to and how they are doing!
Zoe | June 2025
Best June ever. I played with Kostca from whom I got a kough-a. Or I might ‘ve given it to them. Chuck thought I’d snuffed up some cottonwood fluff or a dust bunny ‘cause I kept going “ak….ack” turns out it was Kennel Cough, ‘cause the next day Kostka’s human mum,...
Tiki II | June 2025
Tiki has been enjoying Okanagan life with her summer sitters. She is eager to learn and loves to work. She has taken in some patios, restaurants, the mall and an outdoor concert, and readily settles wherever she is. We are currently working on grates with her and...