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How to name a guide dog?

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Anonymous

15y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

For yourself, or how they are named by the providing organizations?

In regards to naming by the providing organizations, I can tell you about how Guide Dogs for the Blind (U.S.) names theirs. All the pups from each litter are given names of the same letter beginning with "A" and going through "Z", then cycling again. Thus, the first litter ("A") could have names like "Allison", "Adam", "Albert", and so on whereas the next litter ("B") would all have names like "Betty", "Bobby" and so on. No name is re-issued until the dog with that name is dropped from the program, retires from working, or passes away.

My wifes first Guide was from the "M" litter. Her name is "Mariah" and she had littermates "Monty", "Mustang", "Martha", "Marjorie" and "Mark".

Her current Guide is "Roanna" from a "R" litter, and the Guide pup we are raising is "Wally" from a "W" litter.

Nothing stops one from re-naming the dog after they return home from training, but it is not common as the dog has already had 2 years of learning to respond to the given name, and the providing organization will not refer to the dog by any name other than the one given at whelping (birth).

If you are training a dog to be a Guide for yourself, you can name it anything you want.

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