Vision Australia Seeing Eye Dogs are asking Aussies, together with these in Sunbury and Macedon Ranges, to present again this vacation season by changing into carers for the latest litters of Seeing Eye Dog puppies.
Each 12 months, Seeing Eye Dogs breeds greater than 200 puppies that enter the Seeing Eye Dogs program, offering life-changing help to Australians who’re blind or have low imaginative and prescient.
According to Seeing Eye Dogs’ puppy improvement supervisor Jane Bradley, volunteer puppy carers play a significant function in getting ready the pups for formal coaching and placing them on the best
path to changing into future Seeing Eye Dogs.
“Puppy carers are an integral a part of the coaching and improvement of Seeing Eye Dogs. Carers take puppies into their home after they’re about 12 weeks old and look after them till they enter
formal coaching at round 12-15 months old,” she stated.
“With carers, the main focus is on the pups studying basic cues and socialisation abilities; carers aren’t anticipated to have an intensive data of canine coaching, however merely present their time and love
at no cost to them.
“We are there for our volunteers and the pups every step of the way. Our team provides everything the carers need, from puppy food through to covering vet bills and expert training advice.”
Not solely do carers get to welcome an lovable Seeing Eye Dogs puppy into their home, in addition they get to really feel good realizing they’ve helped to doubtlessly change the life of somebody who’s
blind or has low imaginative and prescient.
“The earlier we are able to place a puppy with a carer, the sooner they begin studying the abilities and behaviours wanted to be a Seeing Eye Dog. Delays in putting puppies with carers have a stream on
impact on the matching course of between future Seeing Eye Dogs and a person who’s blind or has low imaginative and prescient,“ Jane stated.
“For lots of our shoppers, a Seeing Eye Dog is their key to being an lively and impartial member of the group. Without the help of our puppy carers, we wouldn’t have the ability to practice
and develop the variety of Seeing Eye Dogs we require to satisfy the wants of our consumer base.”
