[nagdu] Guide Dogs in Sweden

[Tracy Carcione via nagdu]

Hi Leye-Shprintse.
If you don't return to the guide dog association, what are your options?
I'm interested to hear what people can do in countries where there is only 
one training program, if they don't like that program.
Tracy

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leye-Shprintse Öberg via nagdu" <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
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Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2014 11:47 AM
Subject: [nagdu] Guide Dogs in Sweden


> BS'D
>
> Hi,
>
> I thought that I'd give you a brief introduction of how it works with 
> guide dog over here in Sweden.
>
> The majority of guide dogs are owned by the Swedish Association of the 
> Visually Impaired's Guide Dog Authority.
>
> The guide dogs are paid by tax money and are given to the owner without 
> cost.
>
> The owner are given a right of disposal to the dog.
>
> The Guide Dog Authority pays the cost of veterinary care.
>
> The owner gets around two weeks of training.
>
> The owner gets the food which the Guide Dog Authority recomends cheaper.
>
> Six to nine months after the giving of the dog the team has a aftercare 
> visit.
>
> The Guide Dog Authority gives the teams support all year round.
>
> We don't have any other aftercare visits and we don't need to send in a 
> 'bill of health' to the Guide Dog Authority yearly.
>
> A first time guide dog owner gets invited to an information course before 
> the guide dog instructors and owner-to-be discuss and decide if she/he'll 
> be an owner.
>
> A first time owner gets one week of training outside Stockholm and one 
> week at home; the others get their training at home.
>
> Blind persons in Sweden get their O and M from the Low Vision Centre and 
> don't teach the NFB theories.
>
> The Guide Dog Authority purchases the dogs from guide dog schools; sadly 
> some of them don't want to sell their dogs to tem anymore.
>
> Okay, something else? It isn't a dance on roses and I know that my next 
> dog won't come from them and I'm not the only one. Enough said...
>
> LeSholom,
> Leye-Shprintse Öberg
> leyeshprintse at ymail.com
> http://leyeshprintse.com
> Envoyé de mon iPad
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