Caring Canine

 

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We value your participation!  Please click on “To Volunteer” for details.     

 

 

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Please contact us at media@caringcanine.ca.  We value your support!  

 

 

To Request a Doctor Dog or Professor Dog

 

To request a Doctor-Dog or a Professor-Dog team, please:

 

1.      We provide our free services to only

·         Non-profit organizations for the vulnerable populations or 

·         Parents (or legal guardians) of children/teenagers with emotional, health, learning, or literacy challenges

·         We apologize but could not respond to other enquires since we receive thousands of emails every year

    

2.      Please review our programs (scratch here) and choose the potential programs you would like to implement or participate in. J

 

3.      Please get support from your management and co-workers before requesting our service.  If you have already requested a therapy dog from another organization, please wait for their response before contacting us.  Thanks.

 

4.      Please select a permanent staff member to contact us.   

 

5.      If you are working for a non-profit organization: please email admin@caringcanine.ca with the following information:

·         The potential program your team has selected (see # 2 above) 

·         The goals you and your clients want to achieve through our service (briefly)

·         A very brief overview of the services your team provides.  Please skip this if it is obvious (e.g. you are a teacher).

·         A very brief description of the client population.      

·         Your organization’s Web site. 

·         Your name, title, and contact information (email and phone) at work. 

·         A statement confirming that your management and co-workers support the initiative (see #3 above).  Because we respect the policies of all the organizations we collaborate with and have limited resources, we apologize but could not respond to requests without this confirmation statement.

 

6.      If you are a parent (or the legal guardian), please email admin@caringcanine.ca with the following information:

·         The potential program your child would like to participate in (see # 2 above) 

·         The goals you and your child would like to achieve through our service (briefly)

·         The first three letters/numbers of your postal code (e.g. M5A) and how far your child could travel

·         Your name, relationship to the child (e.g. parent or legal guardian), and contact information (email and phone)

 

 

How long would you have to wait for a Doctor-Dog or Professor-Dog team?

 

In general, we do have a long waiting list for our dogs.  But sometimes, a request is answered immediately because everything just falls into place.  We prioritize a request based on its benefits to the client(s), its urgency, and volunteer resources.  Our goal is to make the best use of our limited resources for the maximal benefits of our communities.

 

Would I always get an email reply?

 

If your email includes all the information listed in item #5 or #6 above, we would always try to reply to your email within 1-2 weeks.  However, because we receive numerous requests and have a waiting list for our dogs, we apologize but could not respond to requests that do not include all the information listed in item #5 or #6.  Our goal is to prioritize our limited resources on requests that would benefit the vulnerable population the most.  

 

 

To Support Doctor Dogs

 

Thank you for your support!  To make a donation, please click on "To Donate" for detail. 

 

 

Other Enquiries

 

We apologize but could not respond to any questions on or requests for

·         Service dogs

o        Please contact the Lions Foundation of Canada (scratch here)

·         Service dog certification

o        Please contact the Lions Foundation of Canada (scratch here)

  • Your family member or friend with depression
  • Dog adoption 

o        Please contact a local humane society, a local rescue group, or the Toronto Animal Services (scratch here)

  • Volunteer positions for caring for dogs
  • Volunteering with other animals (e.g. cats, rabbits, birds, etc) instead of a dog
  • Other dog-therapy organizations
    • Please contact the organizations directly
  • Information that is explained our Web site
    • Please review our Web site. 
    • We are run entirely by volunteer efforts but receive a large volume of emails. Thank you for understanding. 

 

Please email

  • Any concerns pertaining to our website
  • Specific questions about our organization that is not available on our Web site

to: info@caringcanine.ca.  Because we receive thousands of emails every year, we apologize but could not respond to requests for information already listed on our Web site.  Our goal is to minimize unnecessary administrative overheads so that we could focus our limited resources on serving our vulnerable clients.   

 

 

Web Site & Email Addresses

 

Our Web address:

 

www.caringcanine.ca   or   www.torontotherapydogs.ca

 

Email addresses:

 

Please see listing above

 

Mailing address:

 

504 - 21 St. Joseph St., Toronto, ON  M4Y 1J8

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: Caring Canine spends every dollar on our programs for our vulnerable clients and thus handles all administrative duties at volunteers’ homes instead of expensive offices.  For privacy and respect, we do not welcome strangers to drop in without an appointment at our volunteers’ homes, at our evaluations, or during our services for our vulnerable clients at any facilities.  Please mail all your documents to us through Canada Post instead.  Thank you for your consideration.     

 

 

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Last Updated: 01-2012