2023 New Years Aspirations for Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs

We will mark down 2022 in history and fondly remember it as the year we accomplished another great milestone for our organization and the people we serve. In addition, to changing the lives of so many people for the better, we created another supportive branch of our organization. We are so proud to have hired our first veterinarian and opened our own veterinary hospital on campus. This hospital will not only take care of the health care needs of our dogs in training but also our paired teams and employee pets as well.

I want to close out 2022 with enormous “Thank Yous” to everyone from staff members to volunteers to donors that have helped us have such a memorable and successful year. You have been an intricate part of changing and saving lives through our amazing service dogs.

As we begin 2023, we are filled with excitement as we break ground on our first campus outside of Florida. Our Pennsylvania location will be a state-of-the-art, first-of-a-kind campus to ever be built in the United States. This project will put years of planning on the map by doubling our capacity to provide more highly skilled service dogs destine to improve the lives of so many deserving people. In addition, the Borden Institute of Higher Learning will be located on this campus, providing hands-on and classroom courses in various animal careers to include service dog training, veterinary technicians, veterinary specialties, kennel management, and more. In support of these career paths, we will also open the second Borden Veterinary Hospital. This hospital is designed to not only care for our dogs in training and paired teams but will also serve the community while functioning as a teaching hospital for the students going through their chosen animal career courses.

What an exciting and very busy year we have in store for all of us here at Guardian Angels. We are looking forward to all the new career paths being created as we grow the various components to expanding our highly skilled, donated service dogs to those in need.

As they say… “it takes a village.” We are building our own village and welcome all of you to play a role in it with us in 2023.

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Carol Borden

The Founder and CEO of Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs, Inc., Carol Borden, titled her first dog at the age of ten. Mrs. Borden has logged nearly 60 years training dogs in multiple disciplines, from competition to training a dog for a movie, to training the #1 Service Dog in the US, which was the first service dog to ever become the Top American Dog Hero winning over all categories of working dogs in the United States. She started the non-profit Guardian Angels Medical Service Dogs organization in 2010.

Mrs. Borden’s expertise and accomplishments are acknowledged by numerous national awards from various industries and agencies including the 2018 Corporate Pet Industry Woman of the Year and multiple awards for her organization’s work in mental health and suicide prevention.

She is frequently requested as a Keynote Speaker, and as an Industry Consultant to teach service dog laws to judicial systems, attorneys, and businesses, and to assist in service dog bills in multiple states that were passed into law. In 2020, she started an Institute for Higher Learning and the Borden Veterinary Hospital. Additionally, she has written and teaches college-accredited/VA-approved apprenticeship courses on dog training and service dog training.