“No matter how little money or how few possessions you own, having a dog makes you rich.”

 - Louis Sabin

Programs

Planned Gifts & Perpetual Care

Love and companionship are the true gifts that keep on giving. Anyone who has shared life with a companion animal, or who has experienced or observed the significant role that companion animals play in the health and well-being of seniors, knows the power of the human-animal bond.

Your financial, retirement, and estate planning can involve long-term and perpetual care for your canine companion. With a little planning you can pay tribute in perpetuity to the very special relationship of love, loyalty, and companionship that you now share with your dog or you can honour the memory of a relationship that you still carry in your heart.

Sadly, the physical bond between human and companion animal is all-too-often cut short. Seniors losing capacity for self-care and relocating to a non-pet friendly residential facility must reluctantly leave behind their devoted companions. Sometimes their dogs also are old and not so adoptable. In other cases, people who are aging resist the desire to form a bond with a canine companion, uncertain of how the dog will be cared for in the event of their illness or death.

One of ElderDog Canada’s main goals is to provide care for older dogs who have lost a human companion and perpetual care for dogs whose human companions have left a legacy to provide such care.