[nagdu] Go Fund Me

[Danielle Sykora]

This is an interesting concept. If I had to fundraise for a program
trained dog, I would probably opt to owner train instead. If I was
going to expend that much time and energy trying to convince people to
make donations, I'd rather put that effort toward locating and
training a dog myself. I am confident in my knowledge of dogs and
ability to train. Not everyone has such a desire to train dogs though.
I definitely think less people would be acquiring dogs because not
everyone would be willing/able to find enough donors.

It is true that many handlers of non-guiding service dogs are required
to fundraise. Different types of service dogs require different
amounts of training however. The more complicated the training, the
longer it takes and therefore the more money it costs. Guide dogs have
some of the most advanced training requirements of any service dogs,
so they have one of, if not the highest, cost. Just something worth
thinking about...

Danielle, Thai, and Bonnie (GDF puppy in training)

On 7/13/15, Cindy Ray via nagdu <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I can assure you that if I had to go raise my own money to get a guide dog,
> I would very soon forget the idea of having one. I would have to do it
> about
> every ten years, and it would bother me to do it. With the schools
> acquiring
> the donors, I don't have to put myself out there all alone to beg for
> money.
> I think it is difficult to have to do that, and I feel for those who have
> to. I wouldn't be willing to do it, but it does make for an interesting
> topic. Would there be less abuse of animals, or is there really that much
> in
> the first place? Schools who give ownership and those who don't get calls
> about it, and often it is perceived abuse and not real at all. Would there
> be less If we had to raise our own funds, or would less people do it. How
> many would feel as I do? There are people who do go to get a dog on the
> advice of others even though they have never even had a dog. One woman I
> met
> had never seen a puppy. Some of them are afraid of dogs or don't like them.
> The dogs eventually win them over, but they surely would not be willing to
> raise funds even if all of their friends were advising them to get dogs.
> This would definitely be a means to screen.
>
> Cindy Lou
>
>
>
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