[NAGDU] doggy repo

[Marion Gwizdala,]

Richard,

	You ask, "what in the world does a guide dog school do with a five
or six-year-old dog they have taken from a handler?" Well, since this dog in
question was nearly ten years old, it furthers begs the question. The answer
is they adopt it out for $5,000.
https://www.guidedogs.org/public-adoption/),Marion Gwizdala

Marion Gwizdala
(813) 626-2789
Blind411 at verizon.net

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Subject: [NAGDU] doggy repo

This brings up a few rather interesting questions.  What in the world does a
school do with a five or six year old dog that they have taken from a
handler?  Apparently if the dog is under three there is demand and maybe
money from fire departments and similar organizations.  The one dog that I
had to send back the school very much insisted that he come back prior to
three years old and he went into the bomb sniffing business.

As for gdf please understand I have never contacted the school and have zero
first hand knowledge about their program.  When attending another program a
class member was a former gdf graduate.  For the entire time I was there he
kept saying that veterans get the good dogs and blind people get the left
overs.  The only thing that gets me curious is that I am sure that VA pays a
school for whatever dogs they are taking ownership of.  Has anyone else felt
this to be the case or was this gentlemen just handing out bad information.

Richard 

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