guide dog – Growing Up Guide Pup

Sometimes it seems like yesterday that our home was filled with the sound of puppies playing. Other times it seems like a lifetime ago. The

Written By: Amie Chapman When I first started puppy raising in 2002, I was still in college going through a veterinary technology program. We learned

Written By Amie Chapman I can not believe how fast this year has gone by. It seems like just a few months ago we were

Written By Amie Chapman On November 4th 2016 we turned guide dog puppy Patrick in for formal training and breeder evaluations. A few months later

Written by Amie and Matt Chapman Dear Anonymous, You were given a beautiful male German Shepherd named Patrick a few months ago. We don’t know

Written by Katie Cuppy It seems like just yesterday when I got a knock on my door at Guide Dogs for the Blind. I

Written by Buddy Brannan Every so often, I hear a variation on this statement: “I think of my school guide dog ID like a driver’s

Written by Amie Chapman Part of the journey as a puppy raiser is saying goodbye and handing your now grown-up puppy over to the

Written by Katie Cuppy I am going to be honest. When I heard your curious son enthusiastically questioning why there was a dog in the

Written by Amie Chapman Every puppy raiser goes into the adventure knowing that one day their puppy will get called back into the school for

Written by Joy Thomas originally published November 17, 2015 I sometimes find it ironic that one of the biggest gifts I’ve ever received was given

How a Guide Dog has Changed My Life Written by Katie Cuppy My guide dog Gabrielle and I have been a team for a year

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