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The ultimate goal of “Brama Labradors” is to provide healthy, fully trained therapy dogs, for people with additional needs, at no charge. All over the world trained dogs have proved essential to helping people with specific challenges to realise their full potential. The challenges some people face can include sight impairment, epilepsy, a variety of physical challenges, sensory processing issues and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
Several years ago all five members of our family were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. Whilst coming as a bit of a shock the diagnosis helped to explain an awful lot of challenges we had faced up to that point. Our youngest son experiences many difficulties (he was three at the time of diagnosis) and we had heard about dogs being used for all kinds of therapeutic purposes, including to our surprise; ASD. We then purchased a rescue dog from a shelter to assist our son with sleeping through the night and managing his anxiety in a changing world.
After this small, untrained little dog had such a positive effect on him, we realised that here was a service our family could provide to individuals with additional needs; therapy dogs. After considerable research, combined with advice from registered breeders, a local therapy dog training service and our local vet, we have purchased our first two Labrador puppies. In the coming months we intend to purchase two more puppies with the intention of expanding our breeding business to a level where we can rest female dogs up to a year or more between litters, as we are only interested in ethical breeding practices. This will ensure maximum health for both our adult dogs and future puppies. We’ll be working within the framework of the revised laws soon to come out in Victoria regarding breeding in order to produce quality dogs. A safe, secure environment for our dogs to live in and raise their puppies is a non-negotiable condition for our family. We live on a property of 117 beautiful acres of land, consisting of natural bush and cleared areas, however we still require secure fencing and shelter, clean birthing rooms and training yards, so our dogs can enjoy the luxury of this space.
Brama Labs will be set up as a not-for-profit charity, with our aim to breed and train therapy dogs, but our pups will also be available as gentle companion pets for families. So we can achieve our goal of breeding these incredible dogs we’re asking for twenty-thousand dollars to establish secure facilities and set up the business in earnest. We only need two-thousand people to donate just ten dollars each to reach our goal.
Please help our family give something back to the community, to help others with problems we’ve experienced firsthand.
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