Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs) - Serving persons with disabilities, inmates, veterans, youth, and the community throughout Minnesota

facing life with four paws and a positive perspective!

Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs (PawPADs) is a 501(C)(3) non-profit organization headquartered in Savage, Minnesota that enriches and enables the lives of people with disabilities by providing them with exceptionally skilled assistance dogs, as well as diabetic alert dogs. Our training programs utilize the power of the human-canine bond as a therapeutic, educational, healing tool; offering volunteers, inmates, veterans, and youth the opportunity to help raise and train our amazing canines.
How can you be a part of PawPADs?

I'd Like to Donate!

Your generous financial support allows us to partner our service dogs with those who need them at minimal cost or for free.

I Need a Service Dog!

We're here to help you get an Assistance Dog if at all possible! Get started on the application and placement process today.

I Want to Volunteer!

Volunteers have donated thousands of hours doing work and having fun creating an incredible service dog.

PawPADs is a candidate member of Assistance Dogs International (ADI).

Support PawPADs!

Please consider making Pawsitive Perspectives Assistance Dogs, Inc. one of your top non-profit organizations to support this year. PawPADs is a 501(c)(3)charitable organization and all contributions are tax deductible to the fullest extent allowable by law.

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