4 Paws For Ability Inc

4 Paws for Ability is an excellent organization! My daughter received her service dog from them in 2019 and her life has improved so much. She was afraid to go anywhere without me but after she was matched with Twist, she became so much more independent! Also 4 Paws is there to help after you receive your service dog. They make sure you have a successful placement for as long as your dog is with you. I highly recommend 4 Paws for Ability!

4 Paws for Ability changed our lives by providing a service dog that serves my 3 children with special needs. Because of this dog, we've been able to go more places (even the beach!) and do more things. We used to have to hold my daughter down to clean her teeth, now she holds the dog's paw. Our dog warns us that seizures are coming, calms the meltdowns and finds my boys if they wander off. She is the anchor on our stormiest sees and our loving companion on sunny days. 4 Paws changes lives.

PLEASE don't give these people any money!
You do all the fund raising yourself and are directed to have donors deposit directly to their bank account...since my grandson can no longer travel, my daughter has had to find a local organization.
Almost $1000 in 4 Paws account will not be returned. How convenient for them!

THEY insist on having donations deposited directly to THEM even though the family does all of the fund raising...see how that works?
SCAM!

This is really amazing! I love that 4 paws lets wright students volunteer for somthing so amazing.

We've watched families foster dogs in 4Paws training program. This not only trains the dogs preparing them for service but also teaches Leadership skills and respobility to the youth involved.

I have worked first hand with 4PAWS and the work they do for the children and veterans is amazing. Not to mention the outreach that they do to the local colleges and communities to help wherever they can.

Caring wonderful people and high quality service dogs.

Receiving our son's service dog was life changing for our family. For the first time in 13 years we were able to go to events and activities as a whole family! Previously it was one parent at the event and one parent at home with our son who has a disability because he could not handle the sensory overload or the difficult transitions or the time the event took. His safety was compromised as he would elope during stressful events.

I've been to this facility and its SPOTLESS!! the dogs are loved, exercised multiple times a day and played with routinely to prevent over training. They are placed with fosters after a rigorous screening process and training. Every trainer isn't just an experienced trainer, they have to learn the exact way 4 Paws trains before they can work with the dogs. This nonprofit has grown leaps and bounds over the last several years because of their high success rate, excellent support care and honesty with matches. Word travels in the special needs community, if this wasn't the best of the best, everyone would know it.

This company sucks. Its their way ornthe highway and theyre all about getting your money!!! Do yourself a favor and give someone else your business.

I emailed this organization about their availability for possible services of which would better assist me to provide for my 9 yr. old daughter, who was only recently diagnosed with High Functioning Autism. The return email I recieved confirmed they do not provide services for our needs but it also belittled resource we created to provided a viable, not to mention legal, resource for my daughter. While I accept they do not provide the services I need, I was shocked at this response. It seemed to me, we were pigeon-holed into a category without the slightest bit of courtesy or empathy for the heart-breaking struggle someone in our position must be undergoing.

For people who are unaware, while children with HFA do not display the same impairments as low and mid functioning autism children, HFA children are often VERY actively suicidal, not to mention capable of, because they are considered to be behavioral problems. Because they are "a smart child" diagnosis is problematic, therefore they are treated with low regard by the public school system, after all, they should be able to "get over" or deal with the normal every day teasing from other children and expected to fall into line like the other kids do.

I most certainly did NOT expect nor request this organization to change their function or mission. All I am saying is that it would have been nice not to have had blind judgement so readily passed against us. We get enough of that already.

4 Paws for Ability provides service dogs that change the lives of children with autism, seizures, crippling physical challenges, severe downs syndrome and combinations of these challenges. They are understanding, compassionate and change lives for the child and their family.