Paws for hope animal foundation.

 https://www.pawsforhope.org/what-we-do/remote-communities/

The Reality of "Transportation Funding": Nine Months of Out-of-Pocket Costs

Paws for hope animal foundation website claims they are committed to removing barriers for those who lack vehicles, specifically boasting that they provide "funding for transportation and transfers." But their public marketing is a far cry from the reality I experienced.

​For nine months straight, I was forced to travel back and forth to the Scottsdale Veterinary Clinic to ensure my senior dog received the care she needed. During that entire nine-month period, I never received a single cent of transportation support from Paws for hope animal foundation. Instead, I was forced to pay out-of-pocket for Ubers and cabs every single time, depleting my own limited funds to get to and from appointments.

​The "Pressure" Narrative: A Tool for Denial

​The hypocrisy runs even deeper than their public marketing. When I reached out to Paws for hope animal foundation representative Kathy Palason for helpnoting the immense burden of these trips and requesting assistance with my senior dog's medical food I was met with hostility. Kathy Powelson Executive Director explicitly told me that by asking for help, I was "putting pressure on the program." Kathy Powelson Executive Director dismissed my request entirely, claiming that they "don't deliver food" and that "that's not what they're about."

​Let’s be clear: they advertise a service to the public to secure donations, but when a disabled client actually needs that service, they claim it’s "not what they’re about" and accuse the client of being a burden.

​A Pattern of Deception

​The more I dig into this organization, the more lies I uncover. For nine months of constant trips to Scottsdale Veterinary Clinic, I bore the entire financial and logistical load while they sat on hundreds of thousands of dollars in annual donations.

​As a permanent HandyDart client, I have no other accessible transportation, made it impossible for me to navigate this system without the support the organization refuses to give. They didn't just fail to provide the transportation funding they promise; they actively shamed me for asking for it.

​When you strip away the marketing, the reality is a foundation that forces disabled clients to fund their own care, strings them along for weeks under the guise of finding "volunteers," and then gaslights them when they ask for the support they are entitled to. I have the screenshots, the recorded conversations, and the email evidence.

​Looking back at my time in the program from 2021 to 2026, the pattern of neglect is undeniable. In those five years, I have not once received the transportation support they claim to provide. As I continue to dig, I am discovering more and more resources that they have intentionally cut me out of resources that were meant for the community, but we're being deliberately withheld from me. This is not just a failure of a program; it is a systematic denial of the support I am entitled to, and I will continue to expose these lies until I receive the support I am owed and deserve.

My community donates to people like me, and i'm part of the community that is part of the community that is supposed to be entitled to these resources from Paws for hope animal foundation but instead

They are making excuses and reasons to not provide me with the resources that I need for my medically necessary, 13-year-old senior girl, and also my puppy that is going to have to go through training. And then get the public access test done and get certified as a service. Dog, it is disheartening that my community doesn't even know that I am being strepped away from these resources that are completely donated to people like me. And I hope that people see the truth and the reality of the situation. And

I'm a strong believer that the truth will always prevail. And it always does, and the truth is coming out slowly. But surely I'm finding more and more things that I didn't know or was aware of and I'm finding these things out now, and that's why I'm letting my community know that this is what happened to me. And this is what is happening to me. And again, this isn't about me. This is about 2 dogs. Okay? A puppy that is gonna be getting trained to get certified. As a service dog and a 13-year-old senior dog, it's about the animals. Okay, this is not about the people.There are gonna people, that don't like each other. It's just like when me and Dr. Lowland had a conversation.You know, there's people you know, that, you know, we're not gonna like, and we both agreed on that.And that's okay, but that doesn't mean you strip resources away from someone that is entitled to those resources. As part of the community and the community is to people like me, so I hope that, you know, the people that are nigging and making donations. You know, just please beware and please be cautious. Because look at what I'm going through and look at what they're putting me through. And the lies, the manipulation, the gaslighting, you know, trying to get me to, you know, stay with my vet, and then me pay eighty percent, and they pay twenty percent.But then when I was in the better together program that is connected toPaws for hope animal foundation they were paying 80%, and I was paying 20%. You know, that's in my previous post. And that just that absolutely makes no sense to do that. To somebody that is disabled on disability and on a strictcome. There's no way that I would be able to afford a puppy. And a dog paying 20% with me paying eighty percent, there is no way even a person that has a full time job still wouldn't even be able to afford that.And you think somebody on disability is gonna be able to do that.