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Guide Dog Puppy Raising Club

Arapahoe County, Colorado

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After 12-18 months in the raisers' homes, the puppies are returned to Guide Dogs for the Blind for harness training. It takes about five months to learn everything they need to know to safely guide a blind person, including avoiding obstacles (working a clearence), traffic training, and intelligent disobedience (disobeying a command if  obeying would put the team in danger). When the dog as learned everything it needs to know and passed every test, it is ready to graduate. The dogs are carefully matched with a blind partner for pace, temperament, and size, among other things. It takes 28 days of training the blind person and the dog together before they graduate as a working team.

Brittania F/BLB co-raised by Liz Landert & Barb Witcher (father is Neo) Returned to GDB 4/12/08	Farnsworth M/BLB   raised by Christina Henderson   (mother is Labelle)
Florita F/YLB raised by Carrie Wagner Returned to GDB 4/12/08
Updated 15 JUNE 2008