Click on the Golden puppy to hear about our mission. Your tax-deductible donations support the Land of PureGold Foundation's ability to fund cancer treatment grants of working dogs and comparative oncology research that benefits both people and companion animals. We promise that one-hundred percent of these donations are solely used for funding cancer treatment and research. And, you can specify in your donation order whether you want the money to go to funding cancer treatment for a working dog applicant or to the bigger cause of comparative oncology research.  

Want to support our funding of comparative oncology research?
Comparative oncology is the study of those cancers that occur similarly in people and companion animals in order to identify treatments and cures that benefits them both. A distinction to comparative oncology research is the fact that disease is never induced in the animals being treated. That is, the cancer has only occurred spontaneously. Humans and dogs have been linked in a mutually beneficial relationship since the Stone Age, when man and dog first joined in the hunt. Dogs share our homes, food, and affection. As it turns out, they also share much of our genetic code and suffer from many of the same kinds of cancer. That's why the clinicians and scientists of the Animal Cancer Care and Research (ACCR) program at the University of Minnesota are joining with dogs in another type of hunt—the search for a cure for cancer in both dogs and humans.

"Veterinarians have known for years that humans and their dogs have many types of cancer in common—non-Hodgkin lymphoma, prostate, lung, breast, and bone cancer, and melanoma, to name a few," Dr. Jaime Modiano explains. "Yet, it wasn't until the dog genome was decoded in 2005 that scientists could begin to reap the rewards of studying cancer in both dogs and humans to their mutual benefit, bolstering the emerging field of comparative oncology."

Want to support our funding of cancer treatment for working dogs?
Our grants are $1,000 per individual full-time working dog partner, the reimbursements provided directly to respective veterinary personnel for oncology related expenses in the United States and Canada. All breeds/mixes may apply. Applicants MUST have been active, full-time working dogs at the time of cancer diagnosis, in the areas of assistance, detection, search & rescue, enforcement, military work, or full-time animal-assisted therapy dogs in assisted living homes or providing therapy in a professional setting (e.g., working with a speech, physical therapy, or occupational therapist; working in a school 5 days weekly; etc.).

There are 3 different types of donations:

1. Cancer Treatment Fund Donations (Helps to support our $1,000 grants to working dogs)

2. Recognition Donations — Both Honoring and Memorializing Others (ability to specify whether donation to fund cancer treatment or cancer research)

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