Resources / Equipment & Grants
4 Paws for Ability
Nonprofit based in Xenia, Ohio that breeds, raises, trains, and places task-trained service dogs with children and veterans with disabilities. Founded in 1998, it places dogs trained for mobility, hearing, seizure response, and behavior disruption, focusing veteran placements on recent-combat veterans whose primary disability is a mobility or hearing impairment resulting from a combat injury. Veteran recipients receive their service dog at no cost.
- Cost
- Veterans receive their service dog at no cost; for other placements clients pay $17,000 while 4 Paws covers all remaining costs (own fact sheet)
- Coverage
- Based in Xenia, Ohio; places service dogs across the United States (Ohio)
- Eligibility
- Focuses veteran placements on recent-combat veterans whose primary disability is a mobility or hearing impairment from combat injury; also places dogs with children with disabilities and some adults
- Last Verified
- October 9, 2026
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