COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) – Want to go to an enormous mid-week social gathering?
Want to look at movie star dogs doing cool stunts?
Want to assist out a tremendous trigger and have enjoyable doing it?
Come out to the Norris Penrose Indoor Event Center Wednesday night from 6-9 to rejoice native nonprofit Your Hearing Dog!
Your Hearing Dog was based two years in the past by a husband and spouse with the aim of matching exhausting of listening to Coloradans with listening to dogs. Hearing dogs are a sort of service canine particularly educated to do precisely what its identify suggests: be the ears for a deaf or exhausting of listening to person.
“We’re trying to have these dogs affordable for the people who need them, because they can save their lives, and they can help them with daily activities and help them have a better quality of life,” mentioned Robin Allery.
It’s a deeply private mission for the couple, who know firsthand each how important these dogs are and the way unusual they’re in Colorado. (Read David and Robin’s story right here.)
“When David discovered he couldn’t wear hearing aids, because it won’t help, so then I looked into getting a dog for him, because when I travel, he can’t hear stuff, and so when we looked into it, we either had at the time to go to California or Florida to get a dog, and they were very expensive.” Robin mentioned.
With David Allery’s nonprofit background, and the couple’s want to assist others on the market like them, beginning Your Hearing Dog was a no brainer.
Wednesday’s festivities are the nonprofit’s grand kickoff, celebrating two years of exhausting work securing breeders, trainers and preliminary funding to get Your Hearing Dog off the bottom. The kickoff will function the canine stars from “America’s Got Talent,” a ventriloquist act, and better of all, the debut Your Hearing Dog’s very first puppy chosen to endure 14 months of listening to canine coaching after which be matched with deaf handler! (Click right here to learn extra concerning the puppies up for competition and the choice course of.)
11 News anchor Matt Kroschel might be emceeing!
The Allerys say fundraising might be an ongoing course of, as they need these dogs to be reasonably priced for each applicant who wants them — however coaching comes with a $20,000 price ticket per canine. Wednesday’s occasion will go a good distance in direction of serving to Your Hearing Dog obtain its mission. All ticket proceeds go proper again to Your Hearing Dog:
Adults (Age 12+): $25 Online, $30 on the door. Includes 1 free beverage.
Kids below 12: $15 Online, $20 on the door. Includes one free drink and one sweet merchandise.
Virtual tickets: FREE (with instructed donation). Stream electrifying occasions out of your consolation zone!
Call 719-716-7921 for particulars on getting your ticket, and click here for those who want to donate to Your Hearing Dog!
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