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 Guide Dog Puppy Raising Club
 Arapahoe County, Colorado

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25 Jan 2012
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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.

Langley
Langley M/BL
Raised by Janet & Chris Ford
Returned to GDB 11 NOV 2011 		Peyton
Peyton - M/YL
Raised by Annie & Steve Smith


Porcini
Porcini - M/BL
Raised by Laura Watt & Brad Lawrence
Returned to GDB 14 Oct 2011