Give Thanks For Our Service Dogs
- Lisa Vaught
- Nov 12, 2015
- 3 min read
Hello!
I have here a news blurb regarding a foundation dear to me. If you've read anything about Frax, my 'helper in a fur suit', hereabouts, I am in great debt and gratitude for not only being helped once, but twice with miracles on four feet! Canine Assistants stepped in and helped me when life was pretty miserable. Four feet and a waggy tail later...I was walking steadier, with a stout helpful canine at my side, I wasn't alone anymore when a seizure took me down at home, my husband didn't worry as much when he was at work and I was alone at home~ wondering if I was OK, if I had seized and was alone, helpless.
Eventually, Jet, my first dog was predicting my seizures twenty minutes before they happened, I could take medication to temper the seizure, and eventually shut it down before it happened! When Jet passed away, prematurely at age four from doggie cancer...it was Frax that picked up the baton and carried on, when I felt so beaten down that I couldn't. He started to predict ten minutes before a seizure, and again I can take medication to halt the progression.
How can you quantify that kind of love? Devotion? How can I tell you what it's like to have your world yanked out from underneath you and for someone to give you your world back...twice? Canine Assistants did all that for me and my husband, my family. People they had never met, didn't know. Each dog is worth in the range of $20,000. Given to me. Given.
Thanksgiving is a time to cast back and think of all the blessings we have~ health, family, love...and when I think of those three things, I think of Canine Assistants. If Frax could speak, he would say that he was born and bred to do this job, and there is nothing, nothing he would rather do...than to give his life in service to me...and I am humbled beyond words, beyond what I can express.
We have less than 24 hours to try and raise some money for this most worthy of charities. Attached is a flyer that has gone out for a call for the Georgia Gives Day:
"Thursday November 12, a statewide online fundraiser driving awareness and donations for a 24-hour day of giving. Canine Assistants needs your support to raise much needed funds to further their very important mission of educating service dogs and the people they assist, so that they may enhance and improve the lives of one another. Canine Assistants will be sharing a lot of photos during our GA Gives Day Campaign to promote our goal of raising $30,000 in one day! It's a big goal, but they are sure to reach it with your help! There are several ways to participate:
Donate! Any amount is appreciated. You can visit our page here: https://www.gagivesday.org/c/GGD/a/canineassistantsinc
Like them on facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CanineAssistants/
Share their posts with your friends and family on facebook and twitter and encourage them to make a tax-deductible donation to Canine Assistants!
With your support, Canine Assistants is sure to have a very successful day! This GA Gives Day, give the gift of hope for a deserving recipient in need. Thank you so much for your support and interest in our organization; we would not be able to serve those in need without you. Canine Staff"
Thank you, from Frax and my family for your support. Happy Thanksgiving. P.S.~ That's Frax giving me a 'therapeutic' kiss!
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