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On 12/2/19 4:41 AM, Janet Bell wrote:
can someone please remind me of the name of this list as I seem to
have forgotten it.
*From:* Avnish Chopra
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*Subject:* Re: Guide dog in United States-help me Please 🙏
To all the kind and wonderful ladies and gentlemen who helped answer
my question – Thank you very much! Really appreciate your help and
understanding.
To the others who thought it was a joke or made fun of my question, I
wish they would read the rules of this group which I quote below:
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On 01-Dec-2019, at 11:29 PM, Cristóbal Muñoz
<cristobalm...@gmail.com> wrote:
Got my dog from Leader Dogs in 95 as well. At the time, I was living
in Mexico. They were I think at the time one of if not the only guide
dog school that accepted international students.
Cristóbal
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From: viphone@googlegroups.com <viphone@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of
Sieghard Weitzel
Sent: Sunday, December 1, 2019 4:41 PM
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Subject: RE: Guide dog in United States-help me Please 🙏
Dave, that Amazon comment was very ignorant and entirely inappropriate.
Kiruna is from India and you may want to remember that not everybody
knows about everything.
I am in Canada and I get lots of people who ask me where I got my
guide dog from, how much they are and if I have to pay for them.
And just in case this is something you didn't know, India is part of
the Commonwealth just as Canada, Australia, Pakistan, Nigeria and
other countries are so maybe it would be possible for somebody from a
Commonwealth country where there is no guide dog school to apply to a
guide dog school in another Commonwealth country and be accepted to
get a dog. I am not saying this is so, but it is certainly possible.
I am in Canada yet I can apply at any US guide dog school to get a dog
if I so choose even though we have several guide dog schools in
Canada. My first dog was from Leader Dogs for the Blind in Rochester,
Michigan and among the I think 24 people who were there in my group to
get dogs 4 came from Spain on some arrangement the Spanish government
or maybe it was some sort of Spanish not for profit group had with
Leader Dogs.
Since nobody explained to Kiruna what the usual process is to get a
guide dog, I will do so in general terms.
You apply to a guide dog school, if it is the first time you get a dog
from them they typically would visit you where you live, they would
want to see your home and where you work (if you work) and they would
also want to see you walk around with a cane or your previous guide
dog if you currently have one to assess your mobility skills and so on.
If they accept you, they will at some point let you know when you can
get a dog, some schools have fairly long waiting lists. Once you get
the date you have to go to the school for typically a 3-week training
course where you get to know your dog and your dog gets to know you.
Walking with a guide dog requires training just as walking with a cane
does and if you have never had a dog you have to of course learn how
to care for the dog, this includes grooming, feeding and picking up
the dog poop in a little plastic bag; I know, sounds shitty, but I
shit you not.
After your course you get to take your dog home, some schools may also
send a guide dog trainer home with you to do some more training in
your own environment or some schools may ask you to come for a shorter
course at the school and then you do more one-on-one training in your
own city/town. In rare cases a trainer may even come to you and do the
entire training with you in your city/town, but I think most schools
would need a good reason to do this.
Most schools also like to follow up with you on an annual bases and
they may send a trainer to do a walk with you and evaluate how things
are going.
Keep in mind that when you get a dog that dog is not yours. I assume
all schools are the same in this respect, but should you not care for
the dog properly they do have the right to take it away from you and I
have heard of a few cases where this was done.
As for the cost to train a dog, including breeding programs, puppy
raising, training and after-care it is I believe around $30,000 or
$35,000 US so actually buying a guide dog is not something most people
could afford if the schools weren't not for profit organizations who
are financed from donations, fund raising events, money bequeathed to
them and so on. I believe in England the government is involved as
well and in Germany the health insurance pays for guide dogs as well
as for things like dog food, vet costs etc.
Lastly, remember the country where you live. How accepted are dogs
there? I haven't been to India with or without a dog, but I did once
take my guide dog to the Philippines where my wife is from. This was
actually my first trip there in 2009 and when we first met in person.
I got all the paperwork done and I wish I had not taken him. The first
week was OK, we stayed on a small island where we had rented a house
together with another friend of mine from Germany who is also married
to a Filipina. The second week when I was back in the Manila area I
could not take my dog anywhere, not even into a Mcdonald's. We did
have a hotel which allowed pets for a fee and while a guide dog here
is not considered a pet and has rights, these do not apply in other
countries. We usually only went out for an hour or two at a time
because I could not bring him anywhere, I couldn't go into a mall with
him (all malls in the Philippines have armed security guards at all
entrances), I could not take him into any restaurants and so on and it
was even a fight to find a taxi who would take him and me back to the
airport when it was time to go home. On my way home I flew via Seoul,
South Korea and I had a full 24 hour layover there. I arrived at 7 PM
and my flight back to Vancouver was not until 7 PM the next day. I
though I'd just go and get a hotel for the day, but no such luck. I
had the help of a friendly person at the airport and we called
probably 10 hotels and none of them would accept me with my guide dog.
I ended up sleeping on a bench at the airport that night, I had asked
one of the airline employees to show me around a bit to where the
washrooms were and where I could take Mulligan outside and I can tell
you it was a long 24 hours. I believe in a country like India you may
find pretty good resistance towards a dog in certain areas or because
of certain religious beliefs. I don't want to generalize, but here in
Canada more often than not when I do have problems with my dog being
accepted somewhere it is in a place wit staff from India or another
middle Eastern country and often by people who follow Islam because in
their faith a dog is considered to be an unclean animals which should
not be touched. But, as I said, I am not wanting to single out anybody
here, I have also twice had issues in a place which was owned by a
German like myself and I certainly know Caucasian Canadians who
really dislike dogs, but at least here we have laws which clearly
state that I can take my dog anywhere whether it's a super market, a
5-Star restaurant or a hotel, on the bus, train or in the airplane.
Regards,
Sieghard
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Dave
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 3:05 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: Guide dog in United States-help me Please 🙏
If you don't reside in the UK. Then you won't qualify, to receive a
guide dog.
You could try amazon. They may have some left over from black friday, lol.
Dave.
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From: terri...@gmail.com
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2019 9:42 PM
To: viphone@googlegroups.com
Subject: RE: Guide dog in United States-help me Please 🙏
Hello Karuna,
You cannot just buy a guide dog to take home. In fact, you cannot just
buy a guide dog period. I am going to guess that you are from India.
You should try applying to one of the guide dog training schools in
the UK and/or Australia. I have know idea if you would qualify for any
of those schools though.
Best,
Terri Hedgpeth
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karuna Chopra
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Subject: Guide dog in United States-help me Please 🙏
Sincere apologies, this mail is off-topic and not related to the iPhone.
I am visiting the United States next week, I want to take back with me
a trained guide dog for helping me move around. can anyone please
suggest where I could buy one? Your help in this Will be greatly
appreciateWill be greatly appreciated. You can email me directly at
kar...@chopra.us
Thank you very much!
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