4 Paws for Ability, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that trains and places service animals with individuals with disabilities to provide them with companionship and promote independent living. The agency accepts anyone who has a disability as defined by the Americans with Disabilities Act. They specialize in finding creative solutions for people who have severe disabilities.

Welcome to Assistance Dogs of America, Inc., located in Swanton, Ohio. ADAI helps children and adults with disabilities achieve greater independence by training and placing service and therapy dogs to assist with the individual`s daily needs. For over 20 years, ADAI assistance dogs have helped transform the lives of over 150 individuals and their communities. From children with muscular dystrophy and spina bifada to adults with cerebral palsy and spinal cord injuries, our service dogs provide their owners with self-reliance, self confidence and self-esteem, and most importantly, a chance to live their lives to the fullest potential. ADAI therapy dogs, equally highly trained, offer comfort and companionship to children in schools, persons in nursing homes and individuals with developmental disabilities, autism and Down Syndrome.

Founded in 1975, Canine Companions for Independence (CCI) is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by providing highly trained assistance dogs and ongoing support to ensure quality partnerships. Headquartered in Santa Rosa, CA, CCI is the largest non-profit provider of assistance dogs, and is recognized worldwide for the excellence of its dogs, and the quality and longevity of the matches it makes between dogs and people. The result is a life full of increased independence and loving companionship.

Circle Tail is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization located near Cincinnati, Ohio. Circle Tail provides service dogs and hearing dogs to people with disabilities. Circle Tail also provide dogs for adoption, as well as offers dog obedience training, behavior management and boarding services.

Circle Tail trains and provides service and hearing dogs.  Service dogs are for people with disabilities other than vision or hearing loss, and hearing dogs are for people who are hearing impaired. 

Hearing Dogs

Hearing Dogs assist individuals who are hearing impaired by alerting them to a variety of household sounds such as a door knock or doorbell, alarm clock, oven buzzer, telephone, baby cry, name call or smoke alarm. Dogs are trained to make physical contact and lead their hearing impaired partners to the source of the sound. Circle Tail trains hearing dogs for people with hearing impairments.

Service Dogs

Service dogs assist people with a variety of physical and/or mental disabilities other than vision or hearing loss. They may retrieve items, open and close doors, turn switches or alarms on/off, provide occasional balance support, or get help in an emergency. Circle Tail trains service dogs for people with physical disabilities.

Guide Dogs

Guide Dogs assist people who are blind or visually impaired by avoiding obstacles, stopping at curbs and steps, and negotiating traffic. The harness and U-shaped handle fosters communication between the dog and the blind partner. In this partnership, the human's role is to provide directional commands, while the dog's role is to insure the team's safety even if this requires disobeying an unsafe command. Note: Circle Tail DOES NOT train guide dogs. For reputable Guide dog organizations see www.assistancedogsinterantional.org or www.igdf.org.uk.

Paws With A Cause trains Assistance Dogs nationally for people with disabilities and provides lifetime team support which encourages independence. PAWS promotes awareness through education.

Pets enhance our lives and we believe everyone should be able to experience the unconditional love and health benefits that having a pet brings. Moreover, we believe anyone who wants to share a loving home with a pet should have access to affordable veterinary services to make keeping that pet possible.

Pets In Need serves pet families with a total annual income that is 200% or less of the federal poverty level.

Services include:

• Primary care: basic wellness/preventative services, treatment of chronic conditions such as diabetes or renal failure; monthly flea and heartworm prevention
• Surgical services, including mass removals, enucleations, and routine spay/neuter
• Dental services, including routine prophylaxis, digital x-rays, and extractions
• Heartworm treatment
• Compassionate end-of-life care and humane euthanasia

The clinic is the only permanent resource for comprehensive veterinary care for low-income pet families in the Greater Cincinnati area. There are no geographic restrictions and our clients come from the entire OH/KY/IN tristate area

UCAN nonprofit spay & neuter clinic provides high-quality, high-volume, low-cost spay & neuter surgeries for cats and dogs in the Greater Cincinnati area.

Our goal is to stop the euthanasia of healthy cats and dogs in local shelters by providing professional spay/neuter services to lower-income families, shelters and rescue groups in the Tri-State area.