Dog Treats for Donations

02/08/2024

Alyssa’s dog treats are now for sale at The Butchers Daughter. Doggie bags and boxes. We dropped some off this morning.

02/01/2024

We found some blankets (18 of them) on clearance sale and picked them Up for Freedom earlier this week. They got them today. 🥰

Dear Danielle & Alyssa:

Just receive a box full of plush blankets that you donated. Can't thank you both enough for thinking of all those pups and big dogs who can use such a nice cushion to lie on. Many of the blankets we have are full of holes and these are excellent replacements. May your winter be full of many blessings.

Thanks again,
"the team at Freedom"

01/12/2024

Baking today for an order placed. 🐾🦴🐕‍🦺

01/11/2024

Freedom has received our donation check.

01/09/2024

Just because Christmas baking is over, doesn’t mean we are done til next season. We will bake throughout the year. Send us an order anytime.

12/29/2023

Freedom Guide Dogs we raised $729.00 in dog treat sales. Thank you everyone who bought treats, paid more than they needed to and those who just gave a donation.

History of donations based on dog treat sales

$415 Berlins Police K9
$750 Vested interest for police K9 vest

Freedom Guide Dog donations total $5314

12/23. $729
12/22. $600
12/21. $1210
12/20 $600
12/19 $1161
12/18 $671
12/17 $343

$6479 total in all donations

12/09/2023

Last call to place dog treat box orders.

12/04/2023

Go ahead and put your orders in. We will be baking again soon.

11/29/2023

11/28/2023

Go ahead and place your Christmas box orders for your pup. $10.00 first box, $5.00 each box after that.

Afterall, It is giving Tuesday today. 😁

Feel free to share with your friends.

11/25/2023

TIME TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS

wheat flour cost is up again this year but we will still make our special offer this year.

$10 for the first gift box
$5 each additional box.
(Pay when picked up)

Send your order by messenger so I can contact you when they are ready. (Unless I already got it) They will be ready a week before Christmas for pickup.

A lot of work and time goes into doing this so please only place an order if your going to pick it up. We had several boxes last year ordered that were never picked up and believe me, our dogs don’t need anymore to eat.

100% of sales is donated to
Freedom Guide Dogs

Thanks everyone!!

11/25/2023

Alyssa sold $147.00 in treats today at the craft fair. Thanks everyone that came by. We brought 22 leftover bags to the American legion to share with the dog owners since they had donated $200.

11/24/2023

Freedoms wish list

11/20/2023

Come get a sample bag for $1.00 on Saturday at the Heritage Park then order a gift box full if your pup approves. Alyssa makes the balls and twists with her hands and I help her cut the other shapes with cookie cutters. These are Made with only Wheat flour, peanut butter water and oil. No preservatives but will last a long time if refrigerated.

11/20/2023

They donated $200 again this year to kick off our fundraising. Thank you to the Berlin American Legion.

11/19/2023

It’s almost that time again…. Stayed tuned!

Our Past donations…….

$415 Berlins own police K9 vest
$750 Vested interest for any police dog vest

$1165.00 for police dog safety vests

12/22 $600
12/21. $1210
12/20 $600
12/19 1161.08
12/18 $671
12/17 $343

$4592.08 to Freedom guide dogs

$5757 total in donations over the years just baking doggie treats. Thank you everyone

11/18/2023

We will be selling our doggie bags for $1.00.

11/16/2023

09/26/2023

Freedom is in need of volunteer Puppy Raisers!

Help provide another pair of eyes to those who cannot see when you raise a puppy in training today! 🐾

For more information on Puppy Raising or to apply visit the link below!

HTTPS://freedomguidedogs.com/raise-a-puppy/

✨No previous dog experience is needed✨

09/19/2023

Xaveries blood levels are all normal! Now we finish the meds we have left and go one month without anything and re-check her blood.

08/22/2023

Xaverie had a follow up visit yesterday. Her labs are ALL normal. We are beginning to cut back on her prednisone slowly decreasing her dose each week. Let’s hope we beat whatever the cause was and it doesn’t return. She lost a total of 15 pounds but she was a little chunky to begin with so that’s not a bad thing. Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers for her.

08/17/2023

Update on Xaveries health.

She has been doing great. She is active, very hungry and peeing a lot. She’s been on Prednisone for a couple weeks causing those symptoms. Her labs are almost within normal limits as of last Monday. The medication dose has been cut in half and we will check her labs again next week. We still have no answer as to what caused her illness but let’s hope whatever it was is going away and doesn’t come back.

08/07/2023

We are back from our vacation and had a wonderful time. Xaveries 2 weeks with Freedom went well. She had no fever for the last week but her WBC count remains low. So with their vets recommendation, we will try a course of steroids to see if that will boost her WBC count. It’s possible she my have an auto immune issue, maybe it’s breed related or still an infection somewhere.

While we were picking Xaverie up, we got a tour of Freedom guide dogs. It really is quite the place. To our surprise, it was pointed out to us that they had used Alyssas photo on the back of their training van and there is a photo of her on their web site.

The yellow labs in the photo are currently in their special training mode. They travel to the big cities in NY to train on subways, busses, crosswalks. I was told that Xaverie recognized her trainer. The puppies are 4 weeks old and their names will all begin with the letter P so of course Alyssa gave her some suggestions for names.

Thanks for those who have supported our page and fund raising. We hope to get back at it again soon.

07/19/2023

Hope everyone has been having a good summer. Just wanted to share this info and ask for good thoughts and prayers:

Alyssas dog Xaverie has been battling a consistent high fever and very low WBC for almost 6 weeks now. We have gone to 2 animal hospitals and our regular vet for X-rays, ultrasounds and various lab testing and we still have no answer to the cause. She acts fine as long as she’s on her fever medication every 12 hours but something is seriously wrong.

We had a vacation planned for 3 months and we were going to cancel it until Freedom Guide Dog stepped in to offer to take her for the 2 weeks so we can still do our vacation. They are also going to have their medical team look at her and we will pick her up on our way home.

I can’t thank them enough for arranging someone to drive all the way from NY to pick her up at our home and keeping her for 2 weeks. I know she is in the best of care with them and i don’t have to disappoint Alyssa on canceling our trip. This is why we give back to them with our treat sales. They do so much for their dogs and clients and we see it all first hand.

Next time we bake treats, when things calm down and the weather isn’t 90 degrees, I hope it will be our biggest fundraiser yet. They sure deserve it.

05/22/2023

Each year MyGivingCircle gives away $500,000

03/31/2023

It’s placement season! 🦮

We place our Guide Dogs through a distinctive program we call Hometown Training. Our trainers travel with the trained Guide Dog directly to the home of the visually impaired individual! In many cases, home is New York City!

During Formal Training our dogs train with heavy traffic training, different kinds of crosswalks, on subways and escalators, plenty of distractions and lots more! This training prepares the dog to be able to guide their handler safely and confidently in heavy urban enviornments, if they should be matched and placed in a busy city.

On average, it’s costs $30,000 to breed, raise, train and place ONE guide dog with someone in need. We place our Guide Dogs completely free of charge to the recipient.
Consider making a tax-deductible donation today!

Pictured: Finn, A male Yellow Labrador Retriever sitting in harness in Times Square. There are tall city buildings behind him along with billboards and people walking in the background.

03/07/2023

We were happy to fulfill a request to Freedom Guide Dogs. Freedom Guide Dogs continues to breed, raise, train and place successful working with those who are or at absolutely no cost to the recipient through their distinctive program called Hometown training. Last year, 49% of placements were to . Dogs are matched to owners at no cost and are supplied with a Guide Dog Instructor to work at the client’s home location. This way the client’s unique needs and environment are taken into account.