[nagdu] Retirement and ownership

[Marilyn tucci]

Leye GDF allows you to keep your retired guide . They don't care if you 
have a pet dog  when you get a new dog. Up untill the 90's they didn't 
want you to keep your retired dog.  I don't know about other schools
Marilyn and Anna


On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 02:44 PM, Leye-Shprintse Öberg via nagdu wrote:

> BS'D
>
> Do the guide dog schools in the U.S. allow single customers to keep 
> their retired guide dogs as pet dogs and still let them get new guide 
> dogs from the schools? (I hope the question is clear enough?)
>
> LeSholom,
> Mlle Leye-Shprintse Öberg
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>> Le 10 juil. 2015 à 20:26, Raven Tolliver via nagdu  a écrit :
>>
>> 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.
>> -- 
>> Raven
>> Founder of 1AM Editing & Research
>> www.1am-editing.com
>>
>> You are valuable because of your potential, not because of what you
>> have or what you do.
>>
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