Burnaby Puppy Days Info Sessions

Join us at our Burnaby Campus to learn about the different volunteer roles at PADS!

CALGARY RCMP VETERANS GOLF TOURNAMENT

September 11, 2025  | Collicutt Siding Golf Club, Calgary

PAWS IN THE PEAKS

Join us for a weekend full of paw-fect fun at Sun Peaks Resort

September 12 – 14, 2025  | Sun Peaks Resort

SUPPORT THE WHITECAPS LITTER

Support the Vancouver FC Whitecaps litter by donating to help fund their
training and care during the puppies’ critical first two years.

Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) breeds, raises, and trains fully certified assistance dogs that support people with disabilities and community care providers.

NEWS & STORIES

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...

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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...

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Puppies & Pies 2019

Sunday, September 8th saw a lively crowd gathered for a block party in the parking lot of the renown Gabi & Jules pie shop in Port Moody.  The fundraiser was the brainchild of owners Lisa and Patrick Beecroft, who are both committed to giving back to the...

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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!