Guide Dogs For The Blind

I have ALWAYS wanted to see what it was like to train a dog for the Guide Dogs For the Blind program! Has anyone done this before? Or, can you give me a link to see what it's all about?! Thank you SO much, and whoever has the best answer, well, get's BEST ANSWER! Thank you SO much!

Maybe contact your local animal shelter & see if they have any numbers or contact details for a Guide dog place.

http://www.guidedogs.org.uk/index.php?id =1465&type=33
http://www.guidedogs.com/site/PageServer ?pagename=about_careers
http://www.learndirect-advice.co.uk/help withyourcareer/jobprofiles/profiles/prof ile439/

Here are some links, i hope they help!

2007-08-05 11:21:43 by

Guide Dogs for the Blind is a non-profit organization which trains and supplies the dog as partners for the disabled. Guide Dogs are raised for ...

I at a gathering early this week for support for the blind when I noticed people from PETA handing out flyers that called for people to stop abusing dogs for their "enslavement" by people.

Now I am just outraged that a animal rights group would be that selfish as to deny the blind one their most useful companion and tool for navigating around.

But, does PETA have a point about enslavement of animals for the blind to use? Or are they just being extreme liberals?

Because they are nucking futs. It's not a Organization I would ever support.

2009-06-23 16:33:51 by ☆♥☆

if a blind person had a guide dog, how excatly does that dog help the person?

The help a blind person function more independently. They know when it is safe to cross a street - they help the blind person to avoid obtacles (such as a skateboard on the sidewalk) - and dangers (such as a ditch). Not any dog can become a Seeing Eye Dog. They are raised knowing that this is their future purpose - then temprament tested at about 18 months old. Many do not make the cut. Those that do receive intense training. Then the new owner and dogs are trained together as a team. We had a friend who had seeing eye dogs for many years. They went to work with him daily - and even flew to remote locations for job related purposes with him. He felt they enriched his life enormously.

Michele
http://www.e-dog-training.com

2007-04-08 14:52:07 by janegirl921

Price: $22.99

So I was thinking as I was driving to work today... I saw a blind woman and her German Shepherd guide dog. I wondered in this day in age, it isn't out of the question for some awful person to mug a blind person..... my question is, All the money and training and time that goes into Guide Dogs... Do they get trained in protection/bite work as well?

Just curious... thanks Dog Section.

Guide dogs are NOT trained for protection and bite work.

The point of a Guide Dog is that it is also suppossed to be socialized and tolerant of the general public. What if their blind master needed physical/medical assistance? That would not be good for the dog to bite and attack anyone who is trying to help his master.

Guide dogs are not suppossed to display ANY aggressive behavoirs.


Shepherds are naturally proctive tho.. Im sure if the dog felt his master was in danger, he would protect him/her.. but the dog is not trained to do that.

2009-05-22 07:06:20 by Peter Griffin

Also, if you happen to know more about the muslim view on dogs in general, that would be interesting. It just seems like there must be something important about dogs to forbid the blind that service. Or is it the service itself maybe? Is it more to do with suffering as God has prescribed than with the type of animal? I'll stop guessing - you tell me.

It is partly a case of dogma becoming too extreme. Islam forbids the eating of pigs and any carnivore including dogs, cats, and birds of prey. In addition dogs are considered unclean because they are scavengers.

Dogs became listed as ritually unclean, and then later totally forbidden as pets. Some sects of Islam consider them OK for work animals but that forming attachments is forbidden. Many Muslims that have immigrated to the US to escape Sharia law now keep dogs and see such attitudes as being way too extreme.
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/Sec urity/?id=1.0.1892967009

ADD: On the actual writings:
http://www.answering-islam.org/Silas/dog s.htm

2009-07-31 15:17:28 by Pickleblossom