[nagdu] church's

[Lyn Gwizdak]

Hi RJ,
Good luck in your studies in becoming a pastor.

If your neice wants to raise a guide dog puppy, she needs to apply through 
4H or contact a guide dog school that is closest to her home.  she can't 
just get a puppy and puppy raise it on her own.  Most of the schools will 
NOT take adult dog donations and she will need guidance and support in the 
actual raising of a puppy that can become a guide or service dog.

The 4H Clubs have been doing this in many parts of the couontry sinse WW2 
when it was found out that raising pups in a kennel didn't work like raising 
a pup in a home with people - the kind of life a guide dog will have after 
training and placement with a blind person.

The puppy raisers usually work as a grooup where they socialize the puppy 
and have a manual to work from.

The other important thing is that her family has to be in total agreemant to 
doing this project.  It is an at least 18 month long project and the 
commitment of the family has to be there.  I wish her well in this because 
the puppy raisers are very important in shaping a potential guide dog.

Any puppy raisers on this list who would like to elaborate further?

Lyn and Landon
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "RJ Sandefur" <joltingjacksandefur at gmail.com>
To: "NAGDU Mailing List,the National Association of Guide Dog Users" 
<nagdu at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 6:33 PM
Subject: [nagdu] church's


> Since I'm involved in the preaching ministry, and hope to be a southern 
> Baptist pastor someday, my feeling is that if the person wish's to attend 
> church with their service animal, then they should be able to do so. 
> Questio... Do guide dogs have to be cirtified as guide dogs? We're getting 
> a golden retreaver puppy, and my niece who is nine keeps telling me, "I'll 
> teach our puppy to be a guide dog. I tell her these dogs have to be 
> specially trained My question is, How would I go about training this dog?. 
> RJ
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