Assistance Dog Elsey Helps Virginia

[TheAndrewMosley]

What kind of person would dislike this?

[AbleMike5]

What a wonderful story. You and Elsey and George are beautiful people. Yes I called Elsey a person, because she really is part of the family.

[servicepoodle11]

@cybervore:

As a pre-med student and a service dog handler, I wanted to respond to your comment.

Organizations like CCI perform a different but equally valuable public service, and are funded by a largely different group of donors who may not be interested in funding de-worming or cataract surgery. Additionally, the placement of one service dog can allow an individual to keep or secure an excellent job and to further contribute socially and philanthropically. These dogs pay for themselves! :)

[TheBlondebabe19]

:')

[onlinehelp1]

WHAT A LOVELY HOUSBAND, THANK GOD THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE LIKE HIM!!!

[JRZGRL55]

I love CCI - I'm a monthly donor. What a wonderful organization. Good work, Elsey!!

[cybervore]

@JRZGRL55 Where can I donate? I'd love to help out! Companion Dogs are our saviors!

[yboris]

@cybervore I wonder how much money it takes to raise these dogs ... while they surely do much good - the important question is "at what cost?". For the same amount of  money one can surely save a few human lives from easily preventable diseases.

[cybervore]

@yboris Yes, they are extremely expensive to train...but all I can say to "at what cost"...there is NO price too high!

[yboris]

@cybervore That seems highly unreasonable; there is only so much money to go around, and if you spend it on training a dog, you're not spending it on vaccinating children, or curing blindness through cheap cataract surgery, or curing a parasitic worm infection (which costs only about $3.50 per person).

Should you pay $10,000 to train a dog to help one person move around or cure almost 3,000 people of parasitic worms?

[Synthpad]

Beautifull story, thank you

[blueshadowes]

Lovely video and a very nice lady. As you can see, cerebral palsy need not deteriment intellectual functioning. My son has spastic quadriplegia CP and it makes me sad when people think he is intellectually handicapped just because he is in a wheelchair and has some trouble with his speech. Hopefully, he will qualify for an assistance dog when he turns 18.

[bester94]

Aww :D i loved this. my first CCI pup graduated with an amazing young girl this past august. i really loved seeing how happy Phoebe made her new owner. when the two of them were together at the lunch before the ceremony, they meshed perfectly and i could tell they loved eachother after only two weeks. i cant wait to raise another pup just to see the look on the face of the graduate who receives him/her