Services Non Profit | Pets | ElderDog Canada

Dog Care Support for Seniors. Our goal is to enable older adults, living at home and with challenges affecting dog care, to continue to benefit from their relationship with their canine companions. ElderDog provides a range of assistance and supports including:

Assistance with obtaining food and feeding
Assistance with animal hygiene
Minor grooming such as nail clipping or help with brushing
Transportation to and from vet or groomer
Temporary care during hospitalization

Older Dog Care. For older dogs who have lost a human companion due to a residence change, illness or death and are left without a caregiver ElderDog works to provide care and companionship through:

Foster care in an approved foster home
Adoption to an approved home
Optimal, pre-planned long term care in an ElderDog residence
Education. Our commitment to provide education and educational opportunities related to the human-animal bond is significant. To this end we:

Distribute information via Internet and print media about the human-animal bond
Are partnered with a Canadian book publisher and offer a book publishing program on the human-animal bond for both young and adult readers

Provide information sessions and seminars to community care organizations about the role of companion animals in seniors’ lives
Present research opportunities for college and university students and others interested in exploring elements of the human-animal bond
Fund scholarship programs for students in any field interested in exploring any aspect of the ElderDog organization and its work
Provide year-round community volunteering, service learning, and cooperative learning opportunities for youth, youth organizations, secondary school and university students
Offer a range of volunteer activities and projects for adults of all ages
Arrange internship/externship programs for community health and veterinary education students and practitioners
Provide artist residency opportunities
Link with other human-animal bond organ

P.O. Box 65
Big Tancook Island NS B0J 3G0