[NAGDU] Guide dog schools and puppy raisers

[Debbie Malone]

I also know that Freedom Guide Dogs has blind puppy raisers who do a
fantastic job preparing the puppies for guide dog training. Blindness
should not be a determining factor when deciding who can raise our puppies.

On Mon, Nov 8, 2021 at 12:26 PM Al Sten-Clanton via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org>
wrote:

> 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:
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >> Sherry
> >>
> >>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: NAGDU <nagdu-bounces at nfbnet.org> On Behalf Of marianne denning
> via NAGDU
> >> Sent: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:27 AM
> >> To: 'NAGDU Mailing List, the National Association of Guide Dog Users' <
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> >> Cc: marianne at denningweb.com
> >> Subject: [NAGDU] Guide dog schools and puppy raisers
> >>
> >> 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.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Marianne Denning
> >>
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