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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
Cole, Regimental #844
PSD Cole is a Labrador Retreiver who was born in Newfoundland and Labrador. He is retired from the RCMP and worked with Cst. Todd Shule for the entirety of his career. Fun fact: Cole was a rescue dog who was offered a job by the RCMP! He was very excited...
June, Regimental #16-036BP
By now, it’s clear that every one of our dogs is special, but what makes PSD June even more unique is her superior genes! June was one of the RCMP’s breeding females and as such she produced 7 working dogs, 1 breeding female and 4 puppies that are undergoing...
Flame, Regimental #13-067
Flame is a retired breeding female who was always known to be fit, well groomed, and healthy. This was due to her wonderful broodkeeper who she lived with on an acreage in the country near the RCMP training centre! Flame was born at the RCMP Police Dog Service Training Centre...
Tribute for Fallen Heroes
Ruger, Regimental #DO7
Ruger was born in Innisfail, Alberta on April 1st, 2005. He was posted to the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary with his Handler, Cst. Morgan. The two were later posted to St. John's, where Ruger worked for the remainder of his career. Ruger was passionate about his job as a Police Service...
Falk, Regimental #980
When PSD Falk was on duty, his human officers knew that no matter what they faced that shift, Falk would have their back. Falk was incredibly courageous: he was always willing to jump in to defend his human counterparts no matter how scary the offender was. But Falk was also...
Tyson, Regimental #931
PSD Tyson is a German Shepard who was born in Washington, USA, in 2008. He began his training in 2010 in the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. He was primarily working in Delta and New Westminster until both agencies integrated with the Lower Mainland District RCMP. Throughout his career, Tyson...
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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Canine Geriatric Nutrition
Most of us love to eat and many of our dogs also live by their love of food. Nutrition is very important for the working dog but it is equally as important upon retirement when they are moving into their senior years. As we all age our bodies change. In...
February Newsletter
Dental Care Dogs chew. Dogs chew a lot of things. It is part of their natural behavior. My own Golden Retriever likes to chew concrete, any hat (even if it’s on someone’s head!!!) and pretty much any stick he comes across. Working dogs like to chew like any other dog,...
Pannus
Pannus is believed to be an immune mediated eye disease that unfortunately can result in blindness if it is not treated. It is common in retired police dogs. Pannus is more common and more severe at high altitudes and in areas with significant air pollution. Military working dogs in Afghanistan...
