One day, Danika was walking around Kohl’s when she noticed a man with a service dog. She asked him how he got the animal and if she might be able to follow a similar process to get one of her own.

“He wrote down his name, Chris, and the words ‘Chive Charities,’” Danika told us.

Talk about serendipitous events, right? The girl who searched for years to find an answer – who embodies an underdog in every definition of the word – found an organization created for people just like her.

If ever there was a community whose sole purpose was to support the underserved, it would be this one. You answered Danika’s call for help in a huge way, providing a grant to cover the service dog adoption fee and specialized training for her service animal from our friends at Guardian Service Dogs.

And like Danika, we didn’t stop there. Chive Pets stepped in to fundraise additional dollars to cover a year’s supply of puppy care for her. All said and done, the total impact is a staggering $40,210.

That amount is higher than usual because of what the dog will be able to do for Danika, including:

Seizure and emergency alert button training
Adrenaline detection
Self-harm interruptions
Blood pressure detection
7 lower-level training tasks

This will be the service dog of all service dogs and it will drastically improve Danika’s life.

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