[nagdu] Retirement and ownership

Raven Tolliver ravend729 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 10 18:26:55 UTC 2015


Hi Gerardo,
Leader Dog does not grant ownership to clients upon graduation. I
believe ownership is granted after successfully working the dog for 1
or 2 years. There are Leader Dog grads on this list who will have more
accurate and detailed info on that.

Most guide dog schools allow the grads to have choice of where their
guide dog stays after retirement. People have a choice of keeping
their dog as a pet, re-homing their dog with a trusted friend or
relative, or returning the dog to the school to be adopted by a family
on a waiting list for a retired guide dog. So even if the client
doesn't gain ownership of the dog from the school, the schools
generally will let clients keep their dogs as pets unless the client
cannot. It is up to the client to retire the dog and contact the
school upon retirement. And clients must return their harness and
collar to the school. That is what I have been told by multiple guide
dog schools. This isn't applicable to all of them, just most. Maybe
others have had different experiences and will share.
Hth. And be sure to create a new topic when you have questions. When
you ask a question that is unrelated to a thread, people will likely
miss your question and will not address it.
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