[NAGDU] Guide dog schools and puppy raisers

[Jody ianuzzi]

What about all the owner trainers that raise their puppies and then train them!

JODY

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> On Nov 8, 2021, at 1:18 PM, Debbie Malone via NAGDU <nagdu at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> 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' <
>> nagdu at nfbnet.org>
>>>> 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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