Some of the links in this post are affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate, the website owner earns from qualifying purchases. This is at no extra cost to you.

Local Fresno Families Take in Guide Dogs in Training

Guide Dogs for the Blind, a national nonprofit, has a puppy kennel in San Rafael, California. When their puppies reach 8 weeks old, they are dropped off to families in various cities.

Guide Dogs has teamed up with Far-Sighted Puppies with a Plan in Fresno, CA which raises pups to become dogs for the visually impaired.







These Families in Fresno excitedly waited for the puppies to arrive and will be co-raising the dogs for a little over a year. These volunteer families teach their four-legged house guests how to behave. They teach them how to socialize by taking their puppy wherever they go.

When they’re a little over a year, they go back to Guide Dogs who put the puppies in a harness and teach them how to guide.

Some dogs don’t become guide dogs, if, for instance, they don’t pass a hearing test or for some other medical reason. In that case, they can go into a different service for another nonprofit or they are kept by their raiser.

The dogs can end up living in different parts of the country, based on the need. What a wonderful experience for a family — the opportunity to do a really good thing for others.

Source credit: (The Fresno Bee) http://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/community/clovis-news/article152222377.html





