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Guide Dogs
Guide dogs have been used for thousands of years and were formally introduced when many soldiers are blinded in World War 1. Guide Dogs help blind or visually impaired people to travel safely and are also excellent companions for them. In this category, there are questions about guide dogs, guide dog training, guide dog centers, etc.
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What was the name of the film about Buddy the guide dog to Morris Frank?
It was called "Love Leads the Way."
David Permut and Jimmy Hawkins produced this movie and Delbert Mann directed it. It was made for the Disney Channel, and premiered on October 7, 1984. It was based on the book, "First Lady of the Seeing Eye" by Morris Frank and Blake Clark. A German Shepherd named Pilot played Buddy with help from trainer Ron Bledsoe. It was filmed on location in Nashville, Tennessee and Leavenworth, Washington. The running time is 99 minutes. The cast includes Timothy Bottoms, Ernest Borgnine, Glynnis O'Conner, Susan Dey, Patricia Neal, Arthur Hill, Richard Speight Jr, and Ralph Bellamy.
Does medicade or medicare cover the costs of a seeing eye dog for some who is legaly blind?
There is a lot of different organizations that provide trained guide dogs for people who are blind or have low vision, completely free of charge. Most of them require you to apply, either by submitting an application online, printing out a copy & mailing it, requesting a paper copy or complete the application over the phone. I would say that, Guide Dogs for the Blind site is the best one, as they still offer their help & support after training is finished, they also have the Veterinary Financial Assistance Program, financial assistance is available, to support you if you are in need of financial assistance in providing veterinary care for your Guide Dog. The reimbursement process requires that both the completed GDB reimbursement form and the itemized invoice are mailed together to GDB.
Seeing eye dogs are trained from birth. They are kept at a breeding kennel, and staff socialize them with their litter until they are 8 weeks old. At this time they are tested for guide dog traits, and those puppies that pass are sent to puppy raisers. The puppy raisers teach their puppy excellent house manners, basic obedience, and expose the puppies to new situations, including taking puppies over 12 months into stores. At around 18 months, these puppies are returned to the organization they came from (ex. Seeing Eyes for the Blind, or Guiding Eyes for the Blind.), and they are then tested again. This is to test their abiblity to be a guide dog, if they pass, they undergo around 2-4 months of training with staff from that organization, and later with their blind partner. These 2-4 months teach the dog to go around obstacles without being told, and to not cross a street if a car is coming.
From about 8 weeks to 18 months they are sent to private homes of 4-H members to be raised. Puppy raisers socialize their young charges, teach them manners and basic obedience while attending weekly training classes taught by Seeing Eye trainers.
At about 18 months of age these pups are returned to the Seeing Eye for formal training with their professional trainers in how to guide the blind. They learn the commands the blind handler will use, how to recognize obstacles such as pot holes and low hanging branches, and how to work with their handler to navigate around the obstacles.
Once the dog is fully trained, he or she is matched with a human partner who comes to the Seeing Eye training center in Morristown, New Jersey for 27 days of intensive training with their new guide under the guidance of trainers. Once the person has completed the 27 day training once, when they return for subsequent dogs the training period is reduced to 20 days.
The first part of guide dog training is usually done by puppy raisers who socialize and habituate pups in their care and teach them basic manners and obedience under the supervision of a trainer from a guide dog school. This process typically takes 12 to 18 months. At the end of that time, guide dog candidates are returned to their schools for advanced training in obstacle avoidance, directed guiding, and intelligent disobedience.
Directed guiding ("left," "right," "forward," "wait") is taught by pairing the commands with the actions. It's the easiest part of the advanced training, but also the most used.
Intelligent disobedience is the process of recognizing when there is an exception to a command and disobeying out of duty rather than disobeying because the dog would rather do something else. For example, if a guide dog is given a command to "forward" into a street, but he sees a car coming, he will intelligently disobey the command to "forward" because it is dangerous to the handler to step in front of a moving car.
Obstacle avoidance is the most important safety skill of guide dogs and the one that most fascinates people curious about guide dogs. Once an obstacle is recognized, the dog is instructed to navigate around that obstacle. He must do so regardless of whether the best path lies to the right or left of the obstacle, and while taking into account not only his own path, but the path of his human partner. Guide dogs are also trained to recognize low hanging obstacles, such as tree branches, that could injure their partner and to navigate around them as well.
Here's one example of how obstacle avoidance might be taught:
Avoiding low hanging tree branches
The trainer approaches a low hanging tree branch with a cane held in front of her face. When the cane hits the tree branch it makes an audible cue to the dog that something has happened. The trainer might also say "ouch" or otherwise indicate an injury has occurred (good acting on the trainer's part is essential for this to work). The team will repeat this exercise with the same tree a few times until the dog is consistently navigating around the branch. Then the trainer finds another branch in another area for additional practice. Because dogs don't generalize well, it is important to practice the same concept (avoid low hanging branches) in several different locations and situations until the dog realizes all low branches and not just specific ones are to be avoided.
They go to families who will train them as a puppy, then after a few months/year they go back to the Guide Dog place and go to people on need!!
First off, are you loosely using the term "guide dog" for all service dogs or do you mean a guide dog? all service dogs go through two phases in training. The first is basic commands often done with a trainer volunteering in a program. The next phase is advanced training where dogs learn more complicated cues specific to their line of work. This is where dogs learn cues to become guide dogs, wheelchair assistance dogs etc.. The whole process takes about two years, and most dogs have a healthy working life of seven years.
They are trained from a very young age to become a guide dog, it's very rare if not impossible for an adult dog to become a guide dog as the training is pretty intensive.
They're trained at schools from puppyhood before eventually 'graduating' to become guide dogs.
Seeing eye dogs are trained from birth. They are kept at a breeding kennel, and staff socialize them with their litter until they are 8 weeks old. At this time they are tested for guide dog traits, and those puppies that pass are sent to puppy raisers. The puppy raisers teach their puppy excellent house manners, basic obedience, and expose the puppies to new situations, including taking puppies over 12 months into stores. At around 18 months, these puppies are returned to the organization they came from (ex. Seeing Eyes for the Blind, or Guiding Eyes for the Blind.), and they are then tested again. This is to test their abiblity to be a guide dog, if they pass, they undergo around 2-4 months of training with staff from that organization, and later with their blind partner. These 2-4 months teach the dog to go around obstacles without being told, and to not cross a street if a car is coming.
Seeing eye dogs are trained from birth. They are kept at a breeding kennel, and staff socialize them with their litter until they are 8 weeks old. At this time they are tested for guide dog traits, and those puppies that pass are sent to puppy raisers. The puppy raisers teach their puppy excellent house manners, basic obedience, and expose the puppies to new situations, including taking puppies over 12 months into stores. At around 18 months, these puppies are returned to the organization they came from (ex. Seeing Eyes for the Blind, or Guiding Eyes for the Blind.), and they are then tested again. This is to test their abiblity to be a guide dog, if they pass, they undergo around 2-4 months of training with staff from that organization, and later with their blind partner. These 2-4 months teach the dog to go around obstacles without being told, and to not cross a street if a car is coming.
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Seeing eye dogs are trained from birth. They are kept at a breeding kennel, and staff socialize them with their litter until they are 8 weeks old. At this time they are tested for guide dog traits, and those puppies that pass are sent to puppy raisers. The puppy raisers teach their puppy excellent house manners, basic obedience, and expose the puppies to new situations, including taking puppies over 12 months into stores. At around 18 months, these puppies are returned to the organization they came from (ex. Seeing Eyes for the Blind, or Guiding Eyes for the Blind.), and they are then tested again. This is to test their abiblity to be a guide dog, if they pass, they undergo around 2-4 months of training with staff from that organization, and later with their blind partner. These 2-4 months teach the dog to go around obstacles without being told, and to not cross a street if a car is coming.
Required training for guide dogs includes some of these important skills: Being able to lead a person in a straight line, from one location to another. Being able to stop at changes in elevation such as stairs and curbing. Being able to stop at overhead obstacles and must be able to avoid obstacles in one walking path.
Why do guide dogs wear a coat?
think it is because then anyone passing can tell it is a guide dog and they sometimes wear florescent coats so people can see them coming in the dark because their owner may not be able to guide them away from oncoming traffic or whatever :) x x
hope this helped.
Can you bring a guide dog into an office?
You should be able to since the dog is assisting you.
If you are a customer coming in from the public you may bring your service animal anywhere you are normally allowed to go under Title III of the ADA (1990).
If you are an employee of a firm and work in an office you must inform your work of your disability and request to bring your service animal to work with you under Title I of the ADA (1990).
Does the ADA apply to the workplace?
Title I of the ADA applies to the workplace. It's not exactly the same as Title III which applies to public accommodations in that access is not necessarily automatic. You may have to provide your employer with proof of your disability and need for a service animal in the form of a letter from your treating physician. Other state and federal laws may also apply in some instances.
Issues involving employment and service animals should be directed to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. To find the EEOC office near you, check the EEOC web site at http://www.eeoc.gov/offices.html. You also can call the EEOC at 1-800-669-4000/1-800-669-6820 (TTY).
Title I requires employers with 15 or more employees to provide qualified individuals with disabilities an equal opportunity to benefit from the full range of employment-related opportunities available to others. For example, it prohibits discrimination in recruitment, hiring, promotions, training, pay, social activities, and other privileges of employment. It restricts questions that can be asked about an applicant's disability before a job offer is made, and it requires that employers make reasonable accommodation to the known physical or mental limitations of otherwise qualified individuals with disabilities, unless it results in undue hardship. Religious entities with 15 or more employees are covered under title I.
Business must provide reasonable accommodations to protect the rights of individuals with disabilities in all aspects of employment. Possible changes may include restructuring jobs, altering the layout of workstations, or modifying equipment. Employment aspects may include the application process, hiring, wages, benefits, and all other aspects of employment. Medical examinations are highly regulated.
Service Dogs are barred from certain locations in the workplace: kitchens (where food is prepared), clean rooms. The workplace should make every effort to accommodate before denying a Service Animal.
ADA Title 3 - Public Acces with a Service dog
Title III covers businesses and nonprofit service providers that are public accommodations, privately operated entities offering certain types of courses and examinations, privately operated transportation, and commercial facilities. Public accommodations are private entities who own, lease, lease to, or operate facilities such as restaurants, retail stores, hotels, movie theaters, private schools, convention centers, doctors' offices, homeless shelters, transportation depots, zoos, funeral homes, day care centers, and recreation facilities including sports stadiums and fitness clubs. Transportation services provided by private entities are also covered by Title III.
Public accommodations must comply with basic nondiscrimination requirements that prohibit exclusion, segregation, and unequal treatment. They also must comply with specific requirements related to architectural standards for new and altered buildings; reasonable modifications to policies, practices, and procedures; effective communication with people with hearing, vision, or speech disabilities; and other access requirements. Additionally, public accommodations must remove barriers in existing buildings where it is easy to do so without much difficulty or expense, given the public accommodation's resources.
Courses and examinations related to professional, educational, or trade-related applications, licensing, certifications, or credentialing must be provided in a place and manner accessible to people with disabilities, or alternative accessible arrangements must be offered.
Commercial facilities, such as factories and warehouses, must comply with the ADA's architectural standards for new construction and alterations.
All new construction and modifications must be accessible to individuals with disabilities. For existing facilities, barriers to services must be removed if readily achievable. Public accommodations include facilities such as restaurants, hotels, grocery stores, retail stores, etc., as well as privately owned transportation systems.
Service Dogs must be allowed to enter with their handler, may not be questioned beyond the greeter and may not be treated differently. Religious beliefs or allergies are not valid excuses to deny access.
No. "People with disabilities who use service animals cannot be charged extra fees, isolated from other patrons, or treated less favorably than other patrons." (See ADA business brief link below.) Requiring them to stay in a certain room when other guests are permitted other rooms would be treating the person with a disability less favorably than other patrons.
You can verify this information yourself by calling the U.S. Department of Justice's ADA information line at: 800 - 514 - 0301 (voice)
or
800 - 514 - 0383 (TTY)
How many people in the U.S. have Seeing Eye dogs?
There are too many programs and independent trainers to accurately count how many guide dogs are in place in the United States.
However, the Seeing Eye, the most recognized program in the world that trains guide dogs has reported in their 2007 annual report that they had 1,760 graduate teams in the field. Note that not all guide dogs are trained by the Seeing Eye. There are many programs that train guide dogs, but only those trained at the Seeing Eye are properly called "Seeing Eye dogs."
It is estimated there are about 20,000 Service Dog users in the US.
The Seeing Eye graduated 60 new dogs in 2009.
Roughly 1,500-2,000 Service dogs graduate each year,
about 150-200 of those for the blind.
How long have dogs helped blind people?
After the First World War, many of the veterans were returning home after having lost their sight due to war injuries. The idea to begin training Alsatians to "help" these veterans re-assimilate back into society was born. I believe the first Alsatians were trained in England, and the training of dogs for guide duties was such a success, the concept spread to other countries.
Other breeds have been tried and the best successes have been with the Shephard and the Labrador Retreiver.
A new school was started in Quebec several years ago with a breeding program which crossed the Lab with the Burmese Mountain Dog in an effort to attain the best traits from both breeds to create the best guide dog.
Pedestrians using guide dogs or white canes with or without a red tip must be given?
The right of way at all times
Where do guide dogs and service animals go if their owner is put in jail?
Probably back to the organization where he/she came from. Some prisons allow a service dog to come with the person.
Is it safe to take a service or guide dog on an escalator?
While many programs train their dogs to ride escalators there are many accidents each year involving sudden toe amputation. In the U.S., wherever there is an escalator there is also an elevator. It is generally safest to take the elevator instead to avoid risk of injury to the dog. All the Guides from Guide Dogs for the Blind are escalator trained. It is very easy to avoid problems with escalators with the proper training. Most blind or visually impaired folks who have Guides will use the elevators or escalators instead of the stairs due to the possible tripping and falling that can occur.
Why are poodles not seeing eye dogs?
1) Poodles don't have the temperament to be seeing eye dogs. They can be high strung and seeing eye dogs are always "on duty" as a working dog.
2) Poodles can and are being used as seeing eye dogs. They are not as common as some of the well-known breeds (Labs, Goldens and German Shepherds) though for several reasons. They are not as likely to be taken seriously as the more popular breeds, and people not looking past the curly coat to read the vest or the harness might deny the guide dog access to a place where it is legally allowed. They are also not as popular with the public as the common guide dog breeds, and therefore it may to hard to find large numbers of fit dogs to train. Also, poodles as a breed can be more reserved then the three breeds listed, though a well-bred well-socialized poodle should do just fine in any situation.
Why is pushing or poking a guide dog necessary during its training?
It is because blinded has guide stick and maybe the owner of the dog could poke the guide dog with the stick. And if he is not trained about that, maybe the dog could be so excited and the owner could be so frightened.
The first American to use a Seeing Eye dog?
"Seeing Eye" is a trademark for The Seeing Eye, a guide dog training school in the U.S. It was founded in 1929. Only dogs trained by the Seeing Eye can properly be called "Seeing Eye dogs."
Guide dogs in general have been trained since at least as early as the middle ages.
Why the guide dog is important?
guide dogs are helpful because they give a blind person their freedom and safety back. These dogs can help a person cross the street safely, keep the blind partner from running into objects, and learn other commands (find a chair in the shade, find a check out line, find an ashtray).
Do retired guide dogs have the same rights and access as working guide dog?
Retired guide dogs do not have the same legal rights and access as working guide dogs. While working guide dogs are granted specific access to public places under laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), retired guide dogs do not fall under these protections. However, many businesses may still choose to allow retired guide dogs as a courtesy, but this is not guaranteed. Ultimately, the rights and access of retired guide dogs depend on the policies of individual establishments.
How do rattlesnakes detect sounds?
Rattlesnakes primarily detect vibrations rather than sounds in the air, as they lack external ears. They are sensitive to ground vibrations through their jawbones, which pick up vibrations from the substrate. This ability helps them sense nearby movements, including potential prey or threats. Additionally, they rely on their excellent vision and heat-sensing pits to locate and identify their surroundings.
