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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...

A yellow lab guide dog in a black leather guide dog harness looks off into the distance as a hand touches her on the shoulder right above the harness.

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...

Recent Articles

Hope by My Side

Click here for descriptive video for the visually impaired.  The moment we’ve all been waiting for has finally arrived – it’s graduation time for our latest guide dog class! This marks a new beginning and a promise of hope for our graduates and their new best friends.   We’re so touched by how they’ve progressed….

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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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Chats with the CEO: London Pickett

London Pickett sings the praises of her guide dog, Tillman, who is so precious and valuable in her life that she describes him as “liquid gold!”  On today’s Chats with the CEO, Titus Herman talks with London, who welcomes Tillman as her third guide dog…and possibly, the very best of all! With Tillman by her…

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Military Heroes: Patty Mac & Captain Joe

These dogs save lives! On today’s Chats with the CEO, Titus Herman introduces us to U.S. Navy Commander Tracy Krauss with Patty Mac, a wonderful facility therapy dog who save lives every day at the Navy Yard Branch Health Clinic in Washington, D.C. Meet this special yellow Lab who loves being a stress reducer for…

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Chats with the CEO: Chad Bagley

LIFE WITH HANDSOME HENRY When Pastor Chad Bagley lost his sight unexpectedly 14 years ago, he lost his independence—until a handsome yellow Lab named Henry restored his faith. In this week’s Chats with the CEO, Titus Herman checks in with Chad and discovers how Henry became his “right-hand man.”  Together Since 2018 Since they were…

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