#Guide dogs

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[chronicallykiki]

FUNDRAISER EVENT Guide Dogs 250 Challenge

From 24th April to 16th May, I'll be taking part in a fundraising campaign for Guide Dogs!

"Every day 250 people in the UK are told they’re losing their sight. It can be devastating. People with a vision impairment are more likely to encounter depression, loneliness, and unemployment. Guide Dogs helps people with sight loss live the life they choose, but we need vital funds to do this. That’s why we need you to be a game changer and take on the 250 Challenge." - Guide Dogs Website

During this time, my Challenge is for streams to be at least 250 minutes long. I also plan to donate an extra £1 for every sub to my channel. And! I've set up a few goals, with incentives to look forward to:

Level 1 Goal £250 : If we hit this, I will sponsor one of the puppies! Level 2 Goal £500 : If we double our 250 goal, I will sponsor two of the puppies!! Level 3 Goal £750 : If we manage to triple our 250 goal, I will sponsor all three puppies!!!

Links: My Twitch Channel My Fundraiser Page Guide Dogs Website 250 Challenge Sponsoring A Puppy

Streaming for 250 minutes (just over 4 hours) doesn't sound like a challenge for most, but for a spoonie like me, who can't regulate their energy levels, it sure can be!

I'll do my best, but in the event I'm unable to meet the 250 minute minimum, we'll have to think of a fun forfeit or something (be gentle).

Regarding the sponsor puppies, the first will be chosen at random, and the second will be via a poll on my fundraiser page.

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[fluttering-by]

Heeeeey, so, we're doing a fundraiser this October! 100km dog walk for Guide Dogs UK!

Obviously I'll be on my mobility scooter but my dad will be walking, and more importantly, so will Fuwafuwa!

We'd be extremely grateful if you could reblog!

You probably know my mum lost her sight a few years ago, and while a guide dog didn't suit her personally, I can say that, while I'm not blind, having an assistance dog absolutely changed my life, so Guide Dogs UK in particular is a very important combination of both for us.

(Photo on the donation page is of me, my dad and my assistance dog at Wembley Stadium, all three in Sheffield Wednesday shirts.)

[thatmultifandomdumbass]

2am thought

Batman’s greatest villain would be a blind person. Man who is blind. Man who can’t see who helped by guide dog. What are guide dog abilities something a rather, somethings a rather, smell, somethings a rathers.

What jobs do doggos? Guide dog, job job, police dog

What police dogs do? Nom nom, this go boom human get away, there the good stuff that make you high as kite here, and person locator.

Doggo smell Batman, doggo then meet Bruce man it same smell. Doggo react to Batman and Bruceman the same. Identity no secret.

Guide Doggo know and people sus. Doggo fearful of spooky punchy Batman. Same, doggo scared of goofy dumb brucie Wayne? Odd. Or opposit

See dog ask for pets and get treat from bruci Wayne, wow sweet, doggo ask for petss and treat from Mr broody Bat break you bones Man? Wat a sec

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled in favour of a visually impaired woman who says a Vancouver café discriminated against her in September 2019. Georgia Pike, a 28-year-old Victoria, B.C. woman, who prefers the term visually impaired to blind, uses a guide dog to navigate. She says she and her father were refused service by the Ooh La La café because they were accompanied at the time by her guide dog, Grainger.  After Pike spent nearly four years fighting her case, the tribunal has found the café's actions to be discriminatory and ordered it to pay her $12,000. Pike is grateful for the outcome and the support she received from her father and the University of Victoria Law Centre but says she wishes the process was simpler.

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[aloeverawrites]

Disclaimer: I made this post a while ago, off the top of my head, in response to an animal rights group that was rightly accused of being ableist. I wanted to try and show that you could care about guide dogs without being dismissive of people who’s are visually impaired but I’m not sure if I did that well. It’s only meant to start a conversation that can be lead by someone more qualified. Instead of reblogging I’d recommend looking for other perspectives on it, (and then sending me the links because I’d like to know more.)

So I have ideas about guide dogs, but I'm sighted so it's not really my place to discuss them.

Like I do think there's a problem with training one organism to serve another for their whole life. I think that if they also teach the dogs how to talk using those soundboards then this will be much better because at least they've agreed to it. Also they might be able to communicate with their carers more effectively and help them more.

And on the other hand, we've put dogs in a situation where being kept in the house all day and then being taken for maybe 1-2 walks a day is their best case scenario. So maybe it's actually better to teach a dog how to function in human society and give them an option to participate in it. I know that working can help human mental health, maybe it's the same for dogs.

And there's the important point that guide dogs help blind people and people with low-vision. It helps them have their needs and rights respected in a world that doesn't look for them they way it should.

Idk, maybe I'm just saying that we should see guide dogs as workers and not tools. And we see animals as objects/tools in general so while we should be changing that thinking maybe we should be focusing on animals that aren't necessary unlike guide dogs.

So yeah I'm not really making a definite statement on this, more trying to start a conversation. Also I'm hoping that my fellow vegans can look at this and figure out how to balance animal rights with human rights because I think that sometimes we ignore the human rights aspect.

So what do you guys think? How do we make things better for guide dogs and their disabled guardians? I'd especially like to hear from people who are vision impaired because they're the most important voices in this.

[thepastisalreadywritten]

24 April 2024

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[workingflooff]

This is your PSA that just because someone is using a guide handle on their service dog and can see does not mean they are faking being blind.

Many people who are not blind utilize guide tasks, including autistic people who have a hard time with sensory input and need to be guided out of situations or people with fatigue who need help with FMP (which kind of looks like guide).

And also many people who are actually legally blind, still have remaining vision and them using that remaining vision, does not negate the fact that they are still blind.

So maybe don’t assume the worst and make assumptions about people in public they could literally just be using the task that helps there disability the most whether or not that is blindness. 



[oliver-and-mushrooms]

Does anyone on here train service dogs? Cause that's a job I've been considering as a career. But thing is, I also want to be a highschool art teacher. I was wondering if maybe I'd be able to do both with the service dog training on the side, or if that'd be too much work. There's not much info on service dog training and it's annoying

[razzek]

Look at all these cute dogs from Petey’s school! You can vote for favorites by donating and the procedes are going to The Seeing Eye guide dog school. :)

[chronicallykiki]

✅ QUEST COMPLETE ✅ 🦮 Guide Dogs 250 Challenge 🦮

You guys are AMAZING!! We hit our £750 goal, and as I pledged to sponsor all three puppies-in-training, that means that, together, we've raised...

£1080

I just can't thank you all enough for all your love, support, and encouragement, during this event. It's been a blast, and I'm still completely blownover by the fact we reach even £250, let alone the £750!!

When I say "you guys are amazing", I mean it with every fiber of my being!! 💖 I hope you all understand how very loved and important you are.

Sponsorship money has already been sent, and I'm awaiting the welcome packs. In the meantime, please enjoy all their cutness in the video above.

You'll notice the sponsor puppies themselves have changed, and I did ask Guide Dogs about this (see Discord screenshot below). The jist of it is that new sponsors are introducted in January, May, and September. I had no idea, and I'm so sorry to anyone disappointed that I've been unable to sponsor Hazel, Frank, and Walter specifically.

However, please don't be too disheartened, as all the money raised through the sponsorships benefits the cause, regardless of selected pup. And lets face it, every single pup is adorable and well worth a sponsor. 😉

[doggozila]

(via Types Of Service Dogs: Different Kinds but all in Service - Doggozila Magazine)

[fluttering-by]

There's a Guide Dog fundraising event for game streamers and I'm just wondering, if I was to take part, if anyone would actually come along?

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Puppy Love

American Girl Magazine, March/April 1995

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[allthecanadianpolitics]

"A Calgary cab company has fined and temporarily suspended one of its drivers for refusing to give a ride this week to a blind woman and her guide dog.

Kim Kilpatrick is from Ottawa and just so happens to be in Calgary with her guide dog, Ginger, to perform a show downtown about living with guide dogs.

"It's a really sort of shocking experience," Kilpatrick said. "I don't just have a dog in the car for the heck of it, she's going to get me from the car to my destination."

Kilpatrick said she used an app to book the taxi after her show last Sunday afternoon at Lunchbox Theatre, located at the bottom of the Calgary Tower.

She said when it arrived the driver told her the dog wasn't allowed in the vehicle because he didn't want any dog hair inside.

Kilpatrick said she told him that was illegal and he had to take the service dog.

In response, she said, the driver told her the dog could go in the trunk -- a suggestion she called "appalling."

Kilpatrick eventually cancelled the ride and booked another taxi from the same company without any problems.

Kilpatrick said she later called dispatch to complain and was told to order a pet-friendly taxi next time.

"Like it was my fault," she said."

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