CPQing proudly supports the Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation (Stichting Hulphond)!
CPQing proudly supports the Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation!
CPQing Solutions is proud to support Huldog Netherlands in their mission to help people with physical or emotional care needs. Our director Ronald Hensen and his wife Mieke have been active for some time as puppy host families, training assistance dogs in their early life stage. In this way, the puppies are lovingly trained for their important task.
Guest family for a pup
Ronald and Mieke offer assistance dogs a warm home where the puppies spend their first 1.5 years socialising and training. The puppies have to learn to cope with different noises, surfaces and heights, lifts, trains and much more. After a year, they should know about 30 commands. This requires a lot of patience, attention and structure as well as time (about four hours a day!). A noble and rewarding goal.
Once the pup has lived in the house for over a year and a half and learned a lot with Ronald and Mieke, the pup will move to Huldog Netherlands’ headquarters. Here he will learn to perform some 70 basic skills to help disabled people. This mostly involves helping someone in a wheelchair, such as opening doors, unloading the washing machine, folding and unfolding the footrests of a wheelchair, but can also be trained as an assistance dog for people who have PTSD or epilepsy.
the Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation’s mission:
“The Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation helps people with a physical or mental demand for care, by deploying a assistance dog or via systemic, experience oriented therapy.”
CPQing is proud to contribute to this great mission. An assistance dog doesn’t only meet a physical or mental demand for care by helping out with the day-to-day, but also prevents a client from getting socially isolated and brings love and warmth to a home.
Excited to help?
Would you like to support the Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation as well? That’s great! There is a variety of ways in which you can help out. One way of course is to tread in Ronald and Mieke’s footsteps and become a guest family for a puppy as well (click here for more information [Dutch website]). But you can also be a temporary host for an assistance dog when its owner e.g. goes on holiday or needs to visit the hospital, or you can adopt a retired assistance dog.
Another way is to join CPQing Solutions in financially supporting the Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation. No matter what amount you can spare: click here (Dutch website) to support the Assistance Dogs Netherlands Foundation!
