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Ned’s Wish™ is a charity organization dedicated to preserving and enhancing the quality of life for retired police and military service dogs by providing financial support for their medical well-being.
A Society for Retired Police Service Dogs
Ned’s Wish™ is a society committed to supporting law enforcement and the Canadian Armed Forces by providing financial and educational support to enhance the quality of life for their K-9 retirees in Canada. After human police and armed forces officers finish serving their communities, their pension funds support them. Due to the cost of health care for retired police or military dogs, the potential to enjoy retirement can quite literally rest on a dime. If health care costs become too high, a dog’s quality of life can be significantly reduced, or even cut-short.
Ned’s Wish: A Cause for Heroes with Paws
Because the work police and military dogs do is so physically demanding, families who adopt retired police and military dogs can be left with substantial and costly
Who Was Ned?
Like most RCMP police dogs, Ned was born at the Police Service Dog Training Centre (PDSTC) in Innisfail, Alta. on May 21, 2003. In June 2005, he was assigned to Cst. Garfield Henderson of the RCMP Valleyview Detachment in Alberta to be raised in the PDSTC imprinting program. In January 2006, Ned entered formal Police Dog Training and completed the course in just 20 working days and officially began working operationally at Comox Valley, B.C. After five years of dedicated service Ned retired to his forever home.
Never Ending Dedication
Ned’s Wish™ is dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for retired police and military dogs by providing financial support for their medical well-being. Who
Featured Heroes
Fyre, Regimental #13-077
PSD Fyre is a German Shepherd who was born on November 14, 2013 in Innisfail, Alberta. She served as a breeding female for the RCMP and spent the entirety of her career in Red Deer, Alberta. Between the span of September 2016 to February 2020, Fyre had 25 puppies! 8...
Brutus, Regimental #1114
Brutus is used to being in the line of fire. During his career in Fredericton he was shot at twice, and both times he played an integral part in solving the shootings. Brutus was born in Innisfail, Alberta at the Royal Canadian Mounted Police kennels and worked his entire career...
Tru, Regimental #MWD501
As our first military dog, Tru is a true pioneer! Tru recently retired from the Canadian Armed Forces after six loyal years of service that included multiple deployments in very difficult environmental conditions that ranged from extreme desert heat to cold Canadian winters. He is a Belgian Malinois that was...
Tribute for Fallen Heroes
Bo, Regimental #872
Bo was born in Innisfail, Alberta at the RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre on June 11th, 2012. Bo and Cpl. Murnaghan spent two years in Saskatoon before being posted to Antigonish, Nova Scotia. Bo was a champion at finding missing persons. On one occasion, Bo was able to locate...
Airas, Regimental #856
Airas began his formal training in April 2010 and graduated in September 2010. He was raised and worked his entire career in Lower Mainland, BC. Airas loved being a Police Dog and did his job well but he also loved interacting with people. Airas has been retired since August 2016...
Chrisa, Regimental #921
Chrisa was born on August 30th, 2010 in Innisfail, Alberta. She spent her entire career in the Lower Mainland with her Handler, Cst. Dopson. At the time, Chrisa was one of only three working female Police Service Dogs in the RCMP. A role that Chrisa took very seriously, she represented...
Heroes’ Journey
Meet Our Retired Hero PSD Clive
We are BARKING with joy that we get to share with you the journey of our retired hero PSDClive! Clive was born in Innisfail, Alberta, and entered into the Puppy Imprinting program with Cst. Matt Young (Cool side note... Clive started his career with Matt and ended up retiring to have Matt and his wife Leah become...
Brando – Part 7: We all need a little help from our friends
Brando is a social dude, and one of his favourite things is to develop relationships with all the people he meets along the way. Brando’s family told us he wanted to thank three of those special people who made his stay in Calgary that much more fun. First up, Brando wants...
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Brando – Part 6: Radiation Graduation
On January 7, our retired hero Brando completed his radiation treatment and was cleared to come home for good. His mom was working and unable to come pick him up, but a few friends, including the wonderful Ned’s Wish VP Tatiana Alexanian, and Dr Sweet’s team were able to put...
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First Aid Kits
Like our family, many of you are active with your retired dogs, hiking, camping, canoeing or travelling. If you haven’t already done so, I would highly recommend having a first aid kit with you, for your dogs. This may be a modified human one, or one specifically dedicated to...
COVID and Veterinary Clinics
You may have noticed how busy your local veterinarian is, and perhaps you’ve had the misfortune of needing to visit an emergency clinic recently and noticed the same at that facility. Veterinary clinics are insanely swamped right now all across the country. Our clinic in Kamloops, BC has about a...
CBD Oil
Everyone wants to try marijuana right now as the new miracle cure for many ailments. Some of the potential uses for cannabis in humans according to Health Canada include palliative care, chemotherapy induced nausea and vomiting, to stimulate the appetite in cancer or AIDS patients, MS, epilepsy, chronic and acute...
