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Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) breeds, raises, and trains fully certified assistance dogs that support people with disabilities and community care providers.
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EVENTS & PARTNERSHIPS
Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Vancouver Whitecaps FC is proud to support Pacific Assistance Dogs by raising awareness of their mission to empower individuals with disabilities. They also sponsored a PADS puppy litter, helping to provide the next generation of life-changing assistance dogs.
Paws In The Peaks
Tourism Sun Peaks and Paws in the Peaks are teaming up with PADS to support a future litter of life-changing assistance dogs. Learn more and join the effort to make a difference at the Paws in the Peaks event fall of 2026.
NEWS & STORIES
2019 Newsletter
Your support drives our mission, helps dogs transform lives, and empowers individuals to have an independent life. Behind each and every success story is a donor who makes this possible.
Double Your Donation
It's #GivingTuesday 2020 and thanks to our dear friends at the McGrane-Pearson Endowment Fund*, Pamela Manson Fund* & the Gracie-Waddell Fund* all donations made today will be matched up to $15K. This means that we could raise enough in just one day to train two...
The Dogfather—PADS Caber—Retires
PADS Caber, placed with Kim Gramlich, Coordinator at Delta Police Victim Services in 2010. Since then to say he's had an enormous impact, both in the people he directly serves and the Justice Facility Dog industry in Canada would be an understatement. Today, Caber...
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.
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