[NAGDU] Guide dog schools and puppy raisers

[Al Sten-Clanton]

One of my Seeing Eye classmates in 2018 had been a puppy raiser for the 
school.  She did have a family that probably helped some, but I have 
little doubt she could have done it anyway.  She was a dog trainer by 
profession, but I forget what kind of training she did, except that it 
was with working dogs.


Al


On 11/8/21 12:02 PM, Jenine Stanley via NAGDU wrote:
> I do know that GDF has had totally blind raisers but as others have said, no one raises a puppy totally alone. There is a great deal of support.
>
> GDF’s sister organization, America’s VetDogs, has a weekend raiser program for its puppies being raised in a number of prison systems. My nephew was a weekend raiser for them as his National Honor society project. He’s low vision and had no problems being accepted.
>
> I do think it’s a school by school effort though to educate.
>
>
>> On Nov 8, 2021, at 11:35 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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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: NAGDU <nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of marianne denning via NAGDU
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>> 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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