Leash of Hope Assistance Dogs

Leash of Hope Assistance Dogs A charitable organization dedicated to training dogs for people with a variety of disabilities and using rescue puppies.

Thus creating hope at both ends of the leash

🐾 June Team Takeover – Meet Oslo & Erin! 🐾We’re excited to continue our Great Canadian Giving Challenge Team Takeover Se...
06/05/2026

🐾 June Team Takeover – Meet Oslo & Erin! 🐾

We’re excited to continue our Great Canadian Giving Challenge Team Takeover Series with Oslo and Erin!

Throughout the day, Oslo and Erin will be sharing their adventures as they travel and connect with their community, helping to educate others about service dogs, disability awareness, and the important role assistance dogs play in their handlers’ lives.

By sharing their experiences, challenges, and successes, they are helping create a greater understanding of what it means to live, work, and travel with a service dog.

Every donation made during the month of June helps Leash of Hope continue rescuing, training, and supporting assistance dog teams in our community. Each donation also gives us another chance to win an additional $20,000 through the Great Canadian Giving Challenge.

Donate here:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/leash-of-hope-assistance-dogs-society/

👀 Watch this space throughout June! We’ll be featuring different clients, volunteers, fosters, and dogs as they take over our page and share their unique stories, challenges, successes, and adventures.

Be sure to follow along today and see where Oslo and Erin’s journey takes them! 💚🐾

🐾 June Team Takeover – Meet Lyra! 🐾We’re excited to kick off our Great Canadian Giving Challenge Team Takeover Series wi...
06/03/2026

🐾 June Team Takeover – Meet Lyra! 🐾

We’re excited to kick off our Great Canadian Giving Challenge Team Takeover Series with Lyra (in training)!

Throughout the day, we’ll be sharing Lyra’s journey as a future assistance dog, the realities of training, and the impact these incredible partnerships can have on independence, inclusion, and quality of life.

Every donation made during the month of June helps Leash of Hope continue rescuing, training, and supporting assistance dog teams in our community. Each donation also gives us another chance to win an additional $20,000 through the Great Canadian Giving Challenge.

Donate here:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/leash-of-hope-assistance-dogs-society/

👀 Watch this space throughout June! We’ll be featuring different clients, volunteers, fosters, and dogs as they take over our page and share their unique stories, challenges, successes, and adventures.

Be sure to follow along and cheer Lyra on as she continues her journey toward becoming an assistance dog! 💚🐾

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06/02/2026

🐾 Welcome to June! 🐾

Today we kick off both National Accessibility Week and our Great Canadian Giving Challenge campaign.

While National Accessibility Week gives us an opportunity to celebrate progress and raise awareness, accessibility isn’t just a week-long conversation. For the individuals and families we serve, accessibility is an everyday reality—and assistance dogs can play an important role in creating greater independence, inclusion, and opportunity.

Throughout the month, we’ll be handing our page over to clients, volunteers, fosters, and dogs from the Leash of Hope community. Together, they’ll share the stories, experiences, and partnerships that make our program so special, while giving you a behind-the-scenes look at life with an assistance dog.

Every donation made in June helps support our rescue-to-assistance-dog program and gives us a chance to win an additional $20,000 through the Great Canadian Giving Challenge.

Donate here:
https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/leash-of-hope-assistance-dogs-society/

👀 Keep an eye on our page—our first takeover is coming up shortly!

The line “accessibility isn’t just a week-long conversation” feels particularly strong because it acknowledges National Accessibility Week while reinforcing that inclusion and accessibility matter every day. 💚🐾

Leash of Hope Assistance Dogs is incredibly proud to see one of our teams participating in the 2026 Law Enforcement Torc...
05/19/2026

Leash of Hope Assistance Dogs is incredibly proud to see one of our teams participating in the 2026 Law Enforcement Torch Run in support of Special Olympics British Columbia. ❤️🔥

Watching our client stand proudly beside an RCMP officer while holding the torch — with Spock a black lab calmly at his side — is such a powerful reminder of what inclusion, partnership, and community support can look like.

Spock’s steady presence as a service dog helps create confidence and independence, but moments like this also show something bigger: that everyone deserves the opportunity to be seen, celebrated, and included in their community.

We are so proud of this team and grateful to the law enforcement members and organizers helping make events like this possible.

A huge thank you to FirstMate Pet Foods for helping support Paris, our lovable Great Dane/Pyrenees cross, with quality f...
05/12/2026

A huge thank you to FirstMate Pet Foods for helping support Paris, our lovable Great Dane/Pyrenees cross, with quality food during her time in training with our program. 🐾💚

As a rescue-based assistance dog program, donations and sponsorships like this make an incredible difference — especially with our larger breed dogs whose nutritional needs can add up quickly. Community support allows us to continue providing proper care, training, and opportunities for dogs like Paris while keeping our focus on matching the right dogs with the right people.

We are so grateful for businesses that believe in rescue dogs and our programs mission. Thank you, FirstMate, for being part of Paris’ journey. ✨

If your business is interested in helping sponsor food, supplies, or care for one of our dogs in training or foster care, we would love to connect.

 

Being a mom is hard.Being a mom to a child with additional needs comes with challenges most people never see—and choosin...
05/11/2026

Being a mom is hard.
Being a mom to a child with additional needs comes with challenges most people never see—and choosing to add a canine partner into that journey is a whole new layer of commitment, patience, and strength.

Today, we honour the moms who said yes anyway.
The ones who show up to training week after week.
The ones who advocate, adapt, and keep going—even on the hard days.
The ones who chose this path because they saw what it could mean for their child’s independence, confidence, and future.

Your dedication does not go unnoticed.
Your strength is shaping lives.

From all of us at Leash of Hope, Happy Mother’s Day 🤍

Our final day of volunteer appreciation week goes to a volunteer who is always quietly showing up for the dogs in any wa...
04/25/2026

Our final day of volunteer appreciation week goes to a volunteer who is always quietly showing up for the dogs in any way she can.

The number of times she has stepped up to pick up dogs, shuttle supplies and event equipment around and love on the program dogs with walks treats and attention is more then we can count.

Liz is truly a one in a million! We actually needed to stage a photo with the worst dog model in our program because of how often she just shows up for our program in the background of our program putting the dogs first.

We love you Liz! Thank you for all your kindness and care

Day 4 of volunteer appreciation week!We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room… or at least giant dog that our ama...
04/23/2026

Day 4 of volunteer appreciation week!

We need to acknowledge the elephant in the room… or at least giant dog that our amazing foster agreed to take on despite being new to pet parenting.

Selina jumped into fostering with no hesitation despite 8 month old Paris being almost equal to her size and has since moved on to the feat of raising 9 week old Lyra.

Her unrelenting dedication to learning all the ins and outs of dog care and training is inspiring.

Thank you Selina, we are so grateful for your commitment to our program

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800 ROBSON St
Vancouver, BC
V6Z 3B7

Opening Hours

Tuesday 4pm - 6pm
Thursday 4pm - 6pm

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6043364700

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