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Summer Heat and Your Dog

6 Ways to Keep Your Dog Safe in the Summer Heat How Do Heat and Humidity Affect Dogs? Summer is here! As the temperatures rise, it is important to monitor your dog’s health and behavior. Take time to think about your dog’s safety. Sunshine, warmth, and fun times with furry friends are all great. But...

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Respect the Harness: Guide Dog Etiquette

Top 12 Tips for Proper Guide Dog Etiquette When navigating with a guide dog, a person with a visual impairment relies on the dog to avoid obstacles, stop for curbs and crossings, find objects such as doors, exits, and stairs, and generally, help the person arrive safely to their destination. A working dog is alert...

Lessons from my Service Dog, Blue

After four years together with Blue, I still marvel at our relationship. It is too trite to say we are simply companions; it is much more profound. There is a depth to his gaze that is hard to fathom. He is not merely looking at me but radiates a sense of calm. And in that...

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How to Become a Guide Dog Instructor

A guide dog instructor takes a break from training to give the guide dog a head scratch At Southeastern Guide Dogs, most of our guide dog instructors begin their careers here as canine care technicians, taking care of dogs that are training on our campus. This entry-level position requires a love of dogs as well...

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A Dog, I’m Not

Click here for descriptive audio for the visually impaired Just a girl and her dog. Or is it?  Isn’t it amazing, the magical bond between a very-good-boy and his very-best-friend? If you’ve ever loved a dog, then you understand. Watch Valerie and Micky, and feel the magic. Give the gift of more magical moments between…

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Fall 2020 Magazine: “A Dog, I’m Not”

 Click here for accessible PDF Enjoy stories of lives transformed and fears diminished. Share the hope and light that only an extraordinary guide or service dog can offer. Inside: Service dog Keith makes life better for Keni Thomas, survivor of the 18-hour firefight in Black Hawk Down. Guide dog Micky makes all the difference…

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