OK, everyone - this wish is EXTRA SPECIAL for me! Detective Chris Winkle is not only a police officer, but he is one of my best friends!

He has a little boy named Caleb. Caleb has just been diagnosed by a specialist as being Adrenal Insufficient. His adrenal gland do not produce adequate amounts of steroid hormones (chemicals produced by the body that regulate organ function), primarily cortisol. If not treated, adrenal insufficiency may result in severe abdominal pains, diarrhea, vomiting, profound muscle weakness and fatigue, depression, extremely low blood pressure(hypotension), weight loss, kidney failure, changes in mood and personality, and shock (adrenal crisis. An adrenal crisis often occurs if the body is subjected to stress, such as an accident, injury, surgery, or severe infection; death may quickly follow. Caleb is very small in stature for his age, which has resulted in a few issues. At times he becomes depressed due to his size and others teasing
him.

I know how much a puppy would do for Caleb and his family!

PLEASE, I know we have been asking for a lot of puppy and service dog wishes...
I want to give back to one of my personal "heroes" and I need your help!

I KNOW we can do this!

Come on Team 1Boy4Change!

We got this - together we can move mountains!

I am looking for a stock coat German Shepherd puppy, male, any color, and between 8 and 12 weeks old.

SUMMER is quickly upon us! I have "14" police K9 teams on my waiting list for heat alarms! Because of budget cuts their departments can't purchase these life-saving alarms! K9s Timo, Barney, Ralf, Elmo, Jack, Hammer, Cliff, Ace, Glock and five more are counting on Team 1Boy4Change to keep them safe!
PLEASE, help me protect the K9 heroes! ALL DONATIONS are tax deductible! It costs $375.00 per alarm!

MEET Pastor Phil! He wished for a service dog (puppy) and he is getting Popi! (the puppy on the left, as soon as his training is completed)
My name is Phil Garner and I live in Fairhope, Alabama. I have been married to Brenda, my high school sweetheart, so far 21 years . Together we have 2 incredible sons, Zack, who is currently 16 and Joel, ,who is currently 14. Both boys make very good grades and are involved with hobbies. Zack is on the tennis team. Joel is a guitarist and plays in the student worship band at church. A very "typical" American family. On March 13, 2010, our family was sitting around the kitchen table putting a puzzle together when my leg shook. Within three hours I would be at USA Medical Center in Mobile Alabama in the Emergency Room paralyzed from the waist down. The doctors quickly diagnosed me with a rare neurological disease called Transverse Myelitis, it was the wrong diagnosis. Eight months later following another similar attack, I would be correctly diagnosed with Neuromyelitis Optica, A.K.A. Devics Disease. This disease has progressively attacked my Neuro-muscular system once more totaling 3 times. Each attack has left me with more paralysis and currently I am classified as a T-4 paraplegic. I am paralyzed from the chest down. I am more thankful for what I have left than I am disappointed for what I have lost. I am confident God has a purpose for such an affliction and every day I share how God is giving me his grace to make it through. It isn't an easy existence. There is much nerve pain that goes with the damage to my spinal cord in this disease. I wish I could tune it out or it would go away but it doesn't. It is here to stay. It is a part of who I am. At first I was disappointed but then I quickly realized God has a purpose in all things. This affliction is not a punishment for things gone wrong, but an opportunity for me to share with the world about how to make things right. My life is
certainly changed from how it once was and believe it or not, it's better than ever.  My life's passage is found in the New Testament book of 2 Corinthians. It really describes my journey as I have compared it to the the Apostle Paul's...
THANK YOU to everyone who helped me grant Pastor Phil's wish! Team 1Boy4Change members ROCK!

Isaac is 15 years old and he needed a service dog... BEFORE we could share his story, well, his wish was granted!

Isaac has been matched with Bear and as soon as Bear finishes his training we will be flying him to Isaac! (See Bear's picture below)

Team 1Boy4Change members ROCK!

THANK YOU to everyone who helped me move this mountain!

MEET Christopher's newest "little fighter" Ronnie, he is 6 years old, profoundly autistic, and intellectually disabled (ID). He is non-verbal and a wanderer. Ronnie is not your "typical" autistic child (if there is such a thing) he
loves people!!!! He cannot speak, will go to anyone and is (if I say so myself)
beautiful! Sadly, this also, makes him pedophiles's dream.  While there
are many wonderful people in this world, there are also the bad one's who would pray on a child like Ronnie.  We have alarms on our doors and windows, as he has "escaped" 2 times so far and I can not even pee without him trying to get outside. Our back yard is fenced, but he has gotten out of that on me too. Thank God he has been grabbed the 3 times that he has eloped by caring neighbors, who know him.  He is registered with our local police department already. He can not sleep alone as he needs a "body" near him and as he is not a good sleeper and if he ever woke and I did not hear him I am afraid he would get hurt or out of the house... Did I mention he can climb like nobody's business.
We need to find a trained tracker/herder for Ronnie and his family! The dog has to have EXCELLENT social skills with children - has to track a child with autism! Obedience a must!

Come on Team 1Boy4Change members - we can do this! We CAN move this mountain!

Meet Popi (on the left) and Shelby (on the right) - they were BOTH selected to become service dogs! Popi will be going to a Youth Pastor in Alabama and Shelby will be going to a Wounded Warrior in Colorado!

Shelby is traveling today on American Airlines and will be in her new home tonight!

Popi is still waiting on some details to be worked out and then he will be going to his new home!

THANK YOU to everyone that helped make these wishes "GRANTED"!

Together we are moving mountains!

Blessings - Christopher & K9 Bronx

Trevor's Wish - A German Shepherd puppy to become his service dog!
Trevor was born with a rare, life-threatening metabolic disease called
Very long-chain acyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase deficiency or VLCADD for short. We were notified during the middle of the night when he was just 10 days old that
we had to rush our seemingly perfect newborn to the emergency room or he would
die. The routine newborn screening test caught this potentially lethal illness
before we even knew anything was wrong. Imagine arriving at the emergency room
of your local Children’s hospital to find out that as you waited for your child
to be admitted, the doctors were looking up your child’s illness on the internet
because they had never heard of it or seen a case. We have been lucky. Our son, Trevor, has celebrated four birthdays. Others have not been so lucky. We learned that our genetic specialists were modeling Trevor’s treatment and progress after the success they were having with a little girl from South Louisiana. Sadly, she died before she turned three years old because emergency room workers would not listen to her parents or adhere to her Emergency protocol letter when she arrived. In fact, the ambulance would not even transport her because they said she looked fine. Trevor, at four years old, is now the oldest patient in Louisiana with VLCADD, and the doctors are using him as a model for care. He has had eleven stays in the hospital, each time requiring an IV with a special sugar called D10. His stays last approximately one week each.

Meet "William" - Christopher's newest young fighter!
William is an energetic, third-grader who attends Unity Grove Elementary School in Locust Grove, Georgia.  He is nine years old and enjoys playing video-games, reading adventure novels, playing with Lego toys and going on vacations (he calls his "adventures").  He is a University of Georgia Bulldogs football fan.  He absolutely adores animals of all kinds. Like many other boys, he loves Star Wars movies and can talk about superheros
for hours. Unlike many other boys, he was diagnosed with Spinal Muscular Atrophy when he was nine-months old.  He never walked, crawled, or rolled over on his own.  He relies on others for all his basic needs like eating, dressing, being put in his wheelchair, going to the bathroom, brushing his teeth and even turning over during the night.  He uses a machine to help him cough and another to help him breathe at night.  He needs help positioning things so he can read, talk on the telephone, play with toys or play video games.  If he drops something, he has to wait until he can ask someone to pick it up. If he wants to go out a door, even a handicap accessible one, he has to wait for someone to open it for him.  Sometimes he even has to ask others to pick up his head when he loses head control or to pick up his arm so he can reach his electric wheel-chair's joystick to drive.  

However, the most amazing thing about William is that he doesn't let his mobility "disable" him.  Once, because he was driving his wheelchair someone asked him, "What's wrong with you?" He quickly and honestly replied, "Nothing, why?"  He, and everyone who knows him, truly believes that.  He is often heard telling people, "I am just like any other kid!"  He is, and his bright spirit and can-do attitude inspires everyone who knows him.

OK, Team 1Boy4Change - we need a puppy! We got a puppy for Wyatt - NOW lets get a puppy for William! We have a trainer ready to help William and his family train the puppy - we just need the puppy! *Female German Shepherd - Stock coat and around 8 weeks old*