Archives for August 2015

Can Do Canines is proud to be the Shepherd Express Heroes of the Week! We just placed our 500th assistance dog Hearing Assist Dog Nina with Paul Chavez in Mequon, Wisconsin (a suburb of Milwaukee). Read on for more! [excerpted from the Shepherd Express] Founded in 1987 in Minnesota by Executive Director Alan Peters, the Midwestern nonprofit Can Do Canines provides assistance dogs to people with disabilities, free of charge. On Aug. 15, it placed its fourth assistance dog in the Greater Milwaukee area, Nina, a 2-year-old Labrador retriever, with Mequon resident Peter Chavez, who has profound binaural hearing loss. They …