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Originally Posted by PeppyGPhiB
If anyone is interested in the organization I volunteer with, it's Canine Companions for Independence (CCI - www.cci.org). It has chapters all over the country, and we're always looking for more puppy raisers. It's a wonderful experience from beginning to end, and we've had a lot of families with kids do it up here in the Seattle area. I've also seen a lot of people do it before they get a dog of their own, either as a way to learn about dog training or to help them decide which type of dog to get. |
Great organization. My friend, who has MS, has her second CCI dog now and works to do a lot of fundraising for CCI. I haven't met her new dog, but her first one was amazing. He could pull her motorized wheelchair if it ran out of juice. He could get her coin purse out of her purse and give it to a cashier at the store. Then the cashier would get out the correct money and hand it back to him and he would put back in the purse and then take the bag of stuff she had bought to carry it. He could open her fridge for her with a rope. It was truly amazing to watch.