Royal Canin Foundation
Supporting The Role of Pets in Human Health
The Royal Canin Foundation supports projects that highlight the positive role of pets in human health and welfare.
We build a better world with the help of cats and dogs
The vocation of the Royal Canin Foundation is to support the role of pets in human health and welfare. The Foundation aims to build human and social capital. It also aims at amplifying existing projects and bring a common direction to the many initiatives carried out today.
Our Projects
Governed independently, the Foundation aims to build human and social capital, which represents investments in knowledge, talent, diversity and relationships with stakeholders. This team work helps to support projects where a pets’ role benefits human health.
2022
2022
Legal Assistance Dogs
This project aims to deploy and establish in courts in France legal assistance dogs specifically dedicated to support vulnerable beneficiaries (mostly children and women) during...
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2022
2022
Improving The Lives Of Families With ASD Children
Dog Point is an association specialized in training, matching and following up assistance dogs for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)....
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2022
2022
BREC-K9 Brigade And Rescue Dogs Mexico
BREC-K9 is a voluntary group of firefighters, paramedics and dogs trained to attend national and international disasters with a specialization in rescuing in collapsed structures....
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2022
2022
Congohound Project
The Congohound dog squadron is involved in resolving various crimes, but also regularly patrols and helps secure people & transport in the Virunga National Park in Congo....
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2021
2021
Disease Detection By Dogs: A Knowledge Base For Everyone
The Institut Curie in France is aiming with the KDOG programme to develop a clear and effective methodology for cancer detection by dogs through 5 research programs, while ensuring...
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2021
2021
Covid-19 Medical Detection Dogs Project
What if detecting asymptomatic cases of Covid-19 was as simple as taking a dog for a walk? Medical Detection Dogs could be deployed to any public space, providing rapid,...
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2021
2021
Autism Support Dogs Project
Po To Jestem encourages children and adolescents with autism spectrum disorder and mental disability to work with specially trained dogs and acquire basic universal non-verbal...
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2021
2021
Certified training for medical detection dogs
The elaboration and implementation of a first standardized “Certified Training in Medical Detection Dogs (CTMDD)” for Dog Handlers or Educators in order to provide to the required...
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News
Futurapolis Santé
The Royal Canin Foundation is present at the Futurapolis Santé event organised by Le Point in Montpellier (7th and 8th October 2022)
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The Role of Royal Canin Foundation Associates
Interview of Cécile Coutens, CEO of Royal Canin: “We want our employees, which we refer to as Associates, to feel a sense of ownership concerning the Foundation. They lead our progress daily and are a fundamental part of our focus to be... ”
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On our way to being a mutual company
Interview of Olivier Raymond, Royal Canin Foundation President: “ At Royal Canin, we strongly believe that pets make the world better for people, so we have made it our purpose: A BETTER WORLD FOR PETS. To share widely our belief, we wanted to... ”
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The Benefits of Pets on Humans
Interview of Fabrice Mathieu, Royal Canin Foundation Administrator: “ Having an animal at home is considered beneficial on many levels – for the pet, the owner, and the community at large. And these benefits can increasingly be supported by... ”
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Science facts: Health benefits of human-animal interaction
The relationship between humans and pets has always been a special and enduring bond. Numerous research on human animal interaction (HAI) have been conducted, proving the benefits on human health and welfare, attesting for instance that pet ownership, particularly dog ownership, is associated with a lower risk of cardiovascular disease and better overall heart health, or that pets can provide emotional support to children, help them deal with stress, be more self confident and understand responsibility. Because nothing compares to scientific knowledge helping to inform practitioners and policy making, for almost forty years the Waltham Petcare Science Institute has been researching human animal interaction with dozens of papers published over the years, all helping to better understand the human-animal bond and how certain populations may benefit from these interactions.
Discover Waltham publications here