[NAGDU] Info pilot dogs

Fri Mar 5 17:51:23 UTC 2021

Hi! I tried in England but they don’t give dogs abroad. The trainers of my two guide dogs, both work there now and they confirmed it.
Generally all the schools in italy use puppywalkers, mine too use but they give many dogs every year. I think they don’t have quite dogs, so they receive others. I know that other school do that, but the selection to became a guide dog is made in a better way!
Thank you!!

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Il giorno 5 mar 2021, alle ore 18:11, Lyn Gwizdak <gwizdaklyn at gmail.com> ha scritto:

Hi Stefania,
Have you tried the schools in New Zealand and Australia yet? Their dogs are trained by British methods. Or Germany? Not sure if your traffic is like that of England where they drive on the left side of the road or like in America where our drivers use the right side of the road.

It's a shame that the Italian school doesnt use dogs that have been puppy raised to be guides. Having dogs that try to attack other dogs or have fears of crowds, noise or public transit! That defeats the purpose of having a dog in the first place!

Hopefully, you find a school that will train you in Italy with your local conditions.

Lyn and Aristotle

On Fri, Mar 5, 2021, 8:37 AM Stefania Cireddu via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>> wrote:
Hi!! Last year they told no!!!! Ciaoo

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> Il giorno 5 mar 2021, alle ore 17:31, JOE JR OTOOLE via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org<mailto:nagdu at nfbnet.org>> ha scritto:
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> Ciao Stefania, I am a first time guide dog user from California. I received my dog from Guide Dogs for the Blind in San Rafael California. I would recommend researching them to see if they will consider clients from Italy. My dog is a beautiful 55 lbs. well behaved no barking Labrador Retriever. Of course travel is longer to California.  Fortunately there are great guide dog schools on the east coast.
> Wishing you the best of luck.
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> Hello, my name is Stefania, I live in Italy and  I’ve already contacted your facebook group, so I apologize if I will repeat this topic. I’m considering to apply to pilot dogs for my next guide dog, because this is the only school which gives dogs abroad. So, I would like to have some information about training and dogs’ behavior. For example, if dogs are well selected. In the school of my dog, in Italy, I think that they don’t chose well because they have dogs dogs also from people that don’t want them animore. Maches are no good sometimes because the dogs are no good for guiding. My first dog has been trained dispite his fear of croud and noise and public transportation, he doesn’t work now but I had him for a year. My second, that I still have, has a strong personality and barks to other dogs and want to attack them when she’s on harness. Both of my dogs didn’t have puppy raisers, so I think that they have not been prepared to became guide dogs. On the web syte Of pilot dogs I got some information, but I would like to know more specifically about some experiences. As I said, I had 2 dogs here in Italy but I had real not too good experience, so I was looking for other schools also abroad.As it’s a long jurney from Italy, I’m a little bit scary to risk if there are too negative experiences, because I’ve already troubled!
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> Thank you for now And sorry for my explenetions.
> Stefania.
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