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Our Mission: To help those who have served our country honorably live with dignity and independence. The service dog programs of America’s VetDogs® were created to provide enhanced mobility and renewed independence to veterans, active-duty service members, and first responders with disabilities, allowing them to once again live with pride and self-reliance. Not only does a service dog provide support with daily activities, it provides the motivation to tackle new challenges. VetDogs trains and places guide dogs for individuals who are blind or have low vision; PTSD service dogs to help mitigate the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder; hearing dogs for those who have lost their hearing later in life; service dogs for those with other physical disabilities, and facility dogs as part of the rehabilitation process in military and VA hospitals. It costs over $50,000 to breed, raise, train, and place one assistance dog; however, all of VetDogs’ services are provided at no charge to the individual. Funding comes from the generosity of individuals, corporations, foundations, businesses, and service and fraternal clubs. Once they make the decision to get a service dog, applicants become part of VetDogs’ open and welcoming community. They are supported with an uncompromised commitment to excellence, from highly empathetic and certified trainers to a meticulously constructed curriculum. VetDogs teams each student with the dog that’s right for them – and the power of their bond makes ordinary moments extraordinary. Crossing the street independently becomes a moment of liberation. Traveling alone becomes a welcome adventure. Embracing new experiences becomes an everyday occurrence. America’s VetDogs launched in 2003 as a project of the Guide Dog Foundation. In 2006, it became a separate 501(c)(3) corporation; the two organizations continue to share staff and other resources to ensure people with disabilities receive the best services possible. With an assistance dog from America's VetDogs by their side, a hero is never alone. With their courage and determination, these remarkable teams reconnect us all to the highest form of freedom there is: the freedom to experience the world around us in any way we choose, and to live without boundaries.

Protection and Welfare of all animals and their environment. Spay and neuter programes. Education, awareness. Love to the forgotten, comfort to the sick and care for the blind, deaf and dying. Changing lives.

TO RESCUE SHELTER ANIMALS AND PREPARE THEM FOR ADOPTION WITH MEDICAL TREATMENT, TESTING, SPAYING OR NEUTERING, ETC., AND THEN TO PLACE THEM IN PERMANENT HOMES. TO CARE FOR UNADOPTABLE ANIMALS (BLIND, DEAFM DISABLED, ETC.) UNTIL END OF LIFE. TO TRANSPORT ANIMALS FOR OTHER RESCUE GROUPS/SHELTERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTHERN VIRGINIA TOAREAS WHERE THEY WILL BE ADOPTED.

To rescue, rehabilitate, & train homeless, neglected & disabled farm animals; focusing their primary attention on miniature horses and smaller ponies. That after rehabilitation can in time be adopted out to a loving and lifelong home; where they will be able to live out their life in a loving, caring and healthy environment. As a part of our organization, they are a sanctuary to several disabled equine & other farm animals suffering from disabilities; being crippled, blind, with a lifelong disability or illness.