A grant from Grey Muzzle helps ACE to sustain and hopefully expand
its Shelter Dog Swim program, an innovative, unique program that gives senior dogs, medical, specialized physical therapy, and fun swims while making organizations more effective.
The Shelter Dog Swim program reduces expensive medical treatments / surgery (and is better for dogs), and it provides pre / post medical rehabilitation, at a greatly reduced cost.
Not exact matches
Yarbrough dreams of going further, of building an outdoor splash pad where Lynchburg's
shelter dogs and community
dogs could play and
swim.
The SPCA
shelter dogs are brought from the
shelter to the pool for a day of socializing and
swimming.
This year they also have a number of new grantees offering innovative programs, including one grantee that offers
swimming lessons to senior
shelter dogs, another focused specifically on treating and rehabilitating senior
dogs from puppy mills, and yet another dedicated to helping terminally ill people care for and ultimately find homes for their senior
dogs.