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On the 28th of September, the Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health team will be scaling Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the UK, raising money for Dogs for the Disabled.
WHO ARE DOGS FOR THE DISABLED?
Dogs for the Disabled is a unique charity founded in 2007 to improve the lives of children and adults living with physical disabilities in Ireland. We deliver approximately 28 fully trained assistance / therapy-dogs each year to our profoundly disabled partners. The dogs that do not progress/qualify (through our rigorous training programme) as fully-qualified Assistance Dogs, go on to career as a therapy-dog.
They operate on a budget of approx. €450,000 per year. They have 6 full-time and 4 part-time staff and the rest of our team is made up of wonderful volunteers.
They have developed a unique Assistance Dog Stability Programme for children.
Their long term vision is to have a global reach by replicating their Assistance Dog Stability Programme around the world.
They support each of our dogs for their entire life – from birth through to retirement.
They run an ethical breeding and training programme – breeding and training all our own dogs in-house.
Every dog they train ends up as either a Fully Qualified Assistance Dog or as a Therapy Dog.
Their goal is to continue serving and helping the most vulnerable in society.
They work with the Irish Prison Service whereby inmates are actively involved in taking care and training of their pups.