Zorka’s puppies are 9 weeks old today, reaching the age where individual activity becomes the most important thing for them. Our foundation provides the ideal environment for their development by moving them to volunteer puppy raisers.

Ready to go

They sometimes get hysterical because they would like to be with people more, but I can’t be with them all day. When they reach the 8-9 week watershed, they are mature enough to need to be with their puppy raiser who will take care of them all day long.

 – said their caretaker, Gizella Ménesi.

The team is ready in every way to enter a new phase of life. Four large puppies weigh 9 kilograms, and the smallest one has pulled herself together and has grown nicely. Juhar has been eating separately for a few weeks, so she has time to calmly spend her portion, without being robbed by the bigger ones.

Smurfette stays!

Five of the four puppies will indeed be going to puppy raisers this week, but Gizella won’t have to wait long to see them again, as she will see them again at the April puppy meeting. She won’t have a shortage of puppies, as Juhar (aka Törpilla) will have Gizella as her puppy raiser, meaning she will stay there with Zorka and her:

I won’t have less work with this one puppy than I did with the five, but everything will be different. We’ll start three times a day, plus whatever else comes along. I’ll walk around town with her, we’ll ride together, and we’ll go to the foundation puppy meetings and joint runs with the older students.

Juhar confidently shows that she will stay with her caretaker- now puppy raiser

Juhar will learn everything she will need in adult life from the family’s experienced adult dogs. She will be taught by Zorka, her mother, and Zina, the now-retired mother dog. Both are training to be “demo dogs” – in this interesting role, they will help participants experience what it’s like to travel with a guide dog at the foundation’s events. They will learn how to lead in a harness, and one of our trainers will help them in their studies. The family’s third dog is a Rottweiler, Scaly only seems like a cuckoo’s egg at first glance, because he knows almost everything that a Labrador trained to be a guide dog can, which is why he is considered an honorary Labrador.

We wish Juhar and her siblings nice spring weather and exciting adventures!

Don’t wait until May— you can already donate 1% of your tax to the Baráthegyi Guide Dog School. 

You can be sure that your tax contribution will go to a good cause, as our foundation dedicates everything to training guide dogs.

Thank you on behalf of visually impaired owners!

You can now offer 1% of your tax for guide dog training through the NAV online platform by logging into your client portal here. It only takes five minutes, and you’ll be supporting a loyal guide dog!

And here’s some more good news! If you provide your mailing address, we will send you next year’s guide dog calendar along with our thank-you letter.

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We wrote about this litter in this article last time.

We photographed the nine-week-old puppies in Gizella’s hands:

Jade, the firstborn puppy

Joghurt is a handsome boy

Jácint is a little girl who moves to the Czech Republic.

Jegenye is the biggest male dog