[nagdu] Success stats

[Tami Kinney]

Tracy, I read the older stats you mentioned when I was researching the
notion of owner-training, and they were awfully daunting since I was
looking for one dog which meant I needed a 100 percent success rate to
have a guide dog.  And this was how it was working out for people who
actually knew what they were doing?  /lol/ There was also an equally
daunting ratio of returns after the match or early retirements...  I got
the dog I found anyway and figured that I'd just start training her and
see what happened.

Anyway, thanks for sharing the updated info.  I do have a vague item
penciled in way down on my to do list to look into what changes there
have been over time at various programs, so I'm glad someone else does
that, too, and lets others know.  Cool!

On Fri, 2011-06-24 at 11:44 -0400, Tracy Carcione wrote:
> In the latest Seeing Eye annual report, they talk about working to improve
> their success rate from birth to a successful match.  The report said that
> 80% of the dogs that enter training make it through.  It also said that
> they have lowered the number of puppies they need to breed in order to
> have enough for training, but, looking at the numbers, it looks like
> roughly 2 to 1--509 pups born, 254 partnered with students.
> I remember reading, ages ago, that only 50% of guide dog puppies make it
> through, and these stats look about the same, to me.
> I would really like to know if GDB's new methods have changed that ratio
> significantly.  I'm also curious if it's about the same at other schools.
> 50% seems pretty poor to me, but maybe that's just how it is.  Anyway,
> these sorts of stats interest me, and I thought they might interest
> others, too.  If anyone else has different stats, I'd love to find out
> more.
> Tracy
> 
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