Sentences with phrase «working guide dog»

When our dogs go on to become working guide dogs, many of them live with their partners in apartments.

In addition, the puppy should also learn how to be left home alone, as even working guide dogs sometimes stay home while their partners go out without them.

He was grateful for our Frank V.D. Lloyd Fund for Guide Dogs, which for nearly 50 years has paid for the care of working guide dogs and helped save his sister's dog.

There are around 4,900 working guide dogs in the UK.

Barbara Bockstahler, Christian Peham and colleagues examined the distribution of pressure in working guide dogs by placing pressure sensors beneath the harnesses.

The D.A.P. group had a 19.1 percent higher graduation rate, suggesting D.A.P. improved these highly trained dogs» chances of success during the final stage of training to become working guide dogs.

There are over 4,300 working guide dogs in the U.K and over 2,500 more at any one time being used as breeding stock or in training.

When he is about a year old, I will return him to Pilot Dogs, where he will receive his formal guide dog training and be placed with a blind master as a working guide dog.

Because we are the ones with the ability to plan and analyze, each student must learn to accept responsibility for all aspects of owning and working a guide dog.

In the United States, 60 to 70 percent of all working guide dogs for the blind are Labrador retrievers.

Guiding Eyes selected the puppy names based on gold medal winners whose names were not already in use by working guide dogs or guide dogs in training.

Our goal is to give each puppy the best chance of becoming a working guide dog, and the right match goes a long way to help create success.

When a puppy - in - training successfully completes the program and becomes a working guide dog, we celebrate the newly formed team during a public graduation ceremony at Guide Dogs of America's Sylmar campus.

Puppy raisers meet the graduate and visit with the puppy — now a working guide dog — before and after the ceremony.

His Mom shares their story, «Audi, a yellow Labrador Retriever, was 11 years old and a working Guide Dog from California - based Guide Dogs for the Blind when diagnosed in May 2011 here in Colorado.

The Guide Dog Fund provides wellness and preventive veterinary care for the working guide dogs of visually impaired clients, regardless of financial need.

Seeing all of the dogs — from the puppies - in - training, to the working guide dogs — learning about the program and seeing firsthand how a guide dog changes a person's life.

Never pet a working guide dog.

We provide a stipend to every graduate of $ 200 to $ 300 per calendar year to cover basic veterinary care for their working guide dog (this does not apply to retired guide dogs).

If you see a working guide dog or a puppy with its raiser while out with your pet dog, it is important to keep your distance.

Entertainer and Guide Dog Partner, Tom Sullivan and his German Shepherd guide dog, Edison, stop by to chat with Marcie and Whistle about their experiences as a working guide dog team.

The veterinary department is devoted to the care and health of our hundreds of puppies - in - training, breeders and our working guide dogs and is prepared to handle a variety of medical needs ranging from routine wellness care to emergency surgeries.

and our working guide dogs and is prepared to handle a variety of medical needs ranging from routine wellness care to emergency surgeries.