Two problems. One solution.
Already within reach.
The traditional service dog pipeline is broken — not for lack of good dogs, but because it excludes millions of shelter animals that could pass a professional temperament evaluation today.
The wait is 2 to 7 years for a professionally trained service dog. Tens of thousands of veterans are in that queue. At the same time, shelters hold dogs with the exact temperament, drive, and potential to do the work — dogs that sit in kennels while veterans sit in waiting rooms.
PawForward was built to fix that. Tom, the founder, saw the gap between what veterans need and what the system provides — and built a platform to put proven evaluation and training tools directly in veterans' hands, not locked behind credentialing programs most people will never access.
That gap — unnecessary and fixable — is what PawForward exists to close.