[NAGDU] Guide dog schools and puppy raisers

[Julie Johnson]

I think the school's puppy department should be contacted directly to get their policy on this.  The puppy raisers are typically volunteers and may or may not be very familiar with blindness.  They also may or may not be knowledgeable about the school's official policy. They are representing the school though and should not be misrepresenting the school's policy or beliefs about puppy raisers and the capabilities of blind people, but that is a seperate issue.

Julie


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> On Nov 8, 2021, at 10:37 AM, Sherry Gomes via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
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> I know a totally blind woman who was a puppy raiser and eventually a guide dog handler herself. She may have done the raising when she was a young adult so still at home. But no puppy raiser is an island. They work in groups and constantly work together to teach and socialize the pups. There's absolutely no reason a blind person couldn't raise a puppy.
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> Sherry
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> From: NAGDU <nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of marianne denning via NAGDU
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> Cc: marianne at denningweb.com
> Subject: [NAGDU] Guide dog schools and puppy raisers
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> The Ohio Association of Guide Dog Users had a long time puppy raiser talk to us about raising puppies for a school. We asked if a blind person could be a puppy raiser and she said one woman who was legally blind did it but there is so much that requires vision that she did not believe a blind person could be a puppy raiser. A blind friend is also interested in becoming a puppy raiser so she attended a meeting at another school and the same thing was said at that meeting. I am concerned schools are discriminating against blind people being puppy raisers and I would like to get information from the different schools and have NAGDU work to change their attitudes. 
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> Marianne Denning
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