PALS is a nonprofit enhancing the quality of life of people in need through pet therapy
02/01/2026
It's super easy to support your PALS and save the planet! 🌍 Recycle your bottles, cans, electronics and clothes from the comfort of your couch! All you have to do is sign up for SkipTheDepot and select PALS as your charity of choice. 💙
Of course, tax receipts are available. 👏
Thank you, SkipTheDepot, for your ongoing support! 🐾💙
Without all of you, our sponsors, donors and volunteers, none of these visits would be possible.
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01/30/2026
Talk about a WIN / WIN?!!! Be you a pineapple person or not, the newly renovated has your taste buds covered! Ticket 164 of the Cash & Boozehounds calendar is our cheesiest winner yet!!!
Its our last day of these draws and just want to thank all our sponsors and you who support, click and like our posts. You keep pet therapy alive in Calgary. Our 300 volunteers can’t do it without you.
Have a great weekend, visit Atlas Pizza and put some pineapple on it! 🍕🍍🍍🍍🍍
01/30/2026
Puppy therapy, right on campus! Our Puppy Rooms at SAIT give students a chance to pause, breathe, and reset with the help of our amazing therapy pets. What started as a way to ease exam stress has grown into one of our most in-demand programs.
Our PALS love supporting students across Calgary’s post-secondary schools and beyond.
These moments of connection make a real difference in busy, high-pressure environments like SAIT — and we’re so proud to be part of their community. 💙🐾
Support PALS ⬇️
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01/29/2026
While Gus is busy getting a full on massage…pet therapy has its perks eh? 🤨🐾🤗
…We do have a winner of a prize pack! Ticket 150 your day just got better!!! Thank you for supporting our 41 year strong mission of giving back to the Calgary community.
Tomorrow is the final winner of the Cash & Boozehounds calendar 2026. See you then.
01/28/2026
Don’t worry we’ll veto that trade.
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We have treats at the office if you need them.
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Ticket 95 person, you just got rewarded fur supporting pet therapy in Calgary with our Cash & Boozehounds calendar. Be here tomorrow for another winner!
01/27/2026
Our PALS team is a big crew that visits with hundreds of students but they still have time to share that ticket 166 is a big winner of an .ca prize.
Sents, candles, sprays and more that are designed to uplift and inspire. A local small business that knows furst-hand the power of pet therapy.
Smell ya tomorrow!
01/26/2026
Sonny loves his senior’s visits so much he literally merges with the chair! Love ya Sonny!
Also love that ticket 35 won today’s Cash & Boozehound’s prize of a liquor basket.
Ah’ll be back….tomorrow with another winner.
01/26/2026
We wanted to take a moment to thank our sponsors, Little Dom Vivant Red Wine and Tito’s Handmade Vodka for supporting PALS and the power of pet therapy 🐶💙
From every bottle of Little Dom Vivant Red Wine that gives back, to Tito’s generous support of our volunteer training and recruitment, these partnerships help us reach hospitals, hospices, libraries, the Calgary International Airport and many more.
We couldn’t do this without you — or our amazing volunteers and community. 💙🐾
You can support your PALS by donating on our website ⬇️
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01/24/2026
What is PALS (Pet Access League Society) all about?! We are a non-profit that brings the joy, comfort, and healing power of animals to people across Calgary. Our trained volunteers and their therapy pets visit hospitals, schools, care facilities, and community spaces to provide emotional support, reduce stress, and create moments of connection.
From helping patients at the Alberta Children’s Hospital and Rockyview General Hospital, to visiting seniors in retirement homes, supporting children and teens with developmental differences, and even calming travellers at Calgary International Airport, PALS pet therapy reaches people of all ages and backgrounds.
Over 40 years of service, we’ve seen first-hand how the simple presence of an animal can create moments of joy, calm, and connection that truly change lives. 💙
Photo of our amazing ACH Saturday team (River, Kona and Pepsi) bringing their endorphin-releasing, blood-pressure-lowering, smile-giving skills to the ACH theatre for their first visit of 2026! 🐾💙
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01/23/2026
Abra, abra cadabra….Ticket 22 will reach out and grab you a giftcard for in downtown Calgary!!
Thank you for supporting the magic that pet therapy brings during those stressful or lonely times. See you back on Monday. Stay warm and remember to smile this weekend. 🤗🐾💙
01/23/2026
It may be lights out for …it happens sometimes when the pets are super good. 🤷♀️
It’s a lights out win fot ticket 139 who won a giftcard to who puts community, great food & good times first.
Night Rupert, night friends…see you tomorrow for Friday’s draw. 🍻
01/22/2026
aka Hera is our lil pet therapy mighty mouse! She also isnt ticket 193 from our Cash & Boozehound calendar.
Maybe its you?! Thank you for supporting PALS Pet Therapy, serving Calgary and area for 41 years!
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The Pet Access League Society (PALS) is a not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to providing Calgarians with pet therapy. Working with community agencies, organizations and facilities, PALS provides various programs and services to help Calgarians in need of the benefits of pet therapy access our services.
Since delivering its first visit in 1985, PALS has helped thousands of Calgarians have regularly scheduled visits to pet therapy at no charge.
PALS people are volunteers ranging in age from 18 to over 80. Visiting is done on a team basis according to a set schedule, under the direction of a team leader and a facility staff member.
Visits are 60 to 90 minutes in length and involve both group and one-on-one sessions.
Freely contributing their time, expertise and hearts, the volunteer's role is vital. They are not involved in a social visit and they must be prepared to communicate through their pet with people who may be withdrawn, disoriented or severely physically or cognitively disabled.
The patient who responds to a pet may go on to communicate with the volunteer, staff, other patients and family members. However, for many of the people PALS visits, verbal communication skills are non-existent so contact with a PALS pet becomes even more important.
During the past years, PALS volunteers have made many breakthroughs. Patients have given response after not having spoken for months; depressed, unresponsive people have reached out to connect with the pets; and people considered to be immobile have turned towards or made physical contact with a PALS pet.
PALS clients are 55% senior citizens, 25% adults, and 20% children and teenagers. The need for our services continues to grow, in part due to the measurable benefits of pet therapy, but largely due to the increase in an ageing population. As the population ages and continues to move from independent housing toward some type of long-term care facility the residents often are forced to downsize their personal belonging and that includes the family pet. Despite statistical facts surrounding improved mental and physical health and wellbeing with exposure to pets, at the time in their life when pets become the most important the connection is removed. PALS visits on a regular basis helps to bridge that connection again, helping to restore what was once lost.
