DOGS FOR BETTER LIVES
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Mission Statement
The mission of Dogs for Better Lives is to professionally train dogs to help people and enhance lives while maintaining a lifelong commitment to all dogs we rescue or breed and the people we serve.
About This Cause
Dogs for Better Lives (formerly Dogs for the Deaf) is a national 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, founded in 1977 by the late Roy G. Kabat. Roy worked with exotic and domestic animals for movies and television and had a small traveling circus. After retiring to the Applegate Valley in southern Oregon, he was contacted by the American Humane Association. A deaf woman in Minnesota had owned a dog that trained itself to let her know when sounds were occurring in her home. As she lost more of her hearing, her dog alerted her to more and more sounds. After her beloved dog died, the woman realized how much she had come to depend on the dog and began a search for someone to train a new dog for her. The American Humane Association initiated experimental work trying to train dogs to help people who were deaf, and they contacted Roy for advice. After spending two weeks at the AHA headquarters, Roy returned to Oregon and began Dogs for the Deaf. Our first location was outside Jacksonville, Oregon. We moved to our current location in 1989, a 40-acre site at the base of lower Table Rock in Central Point, Oregon. In 2017, Dogs for the Deaf was renamed Dogs for Better Lives. With more than 40 years rescuing, breeding and training more than 1,700 dogs across United States. While we are still officially Dogs for the Deaf with the IRS, we are doing business as Dogs for Better Lives. Currently, we acquire, train, and place Assistance Dogs in three programs; Hearing, Autism, and Facility. Our dogs are acquired from shelters, other sister Assistance Dog organizations, national cooperatives, and from our own breeding program.