BARÁTHEGYI Guide Dog School
Tag: guide dog
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The Guide Dog Trainees rest a lot, which they need since they get tired both physically and in mind. They live half a year long in the home of their trainer therefore their soft bed is waiting there for them. At the end of April, we celebrate the International Day of Guide Dogs, which is
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Reward treats accompany our guide dogs lifelong. Puppy raisers, trainers and owners reward Labradors gladly and the dogs admire them. Although the quantity decreases year by year, that has its explanation though. We introduce you in a series of articles on how we care about the wellbeing of the puppy pupils in the Baráthegyi Guide
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This is how we care about the wellbeing of our dogs The dogs, in guide dog training are not only working dogs, but the member of our trainers’ family. Did you know that they only learn 3-4 hours a day? So, they have time for many things. For having rest, playing, and for having a
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Good form-masters are concerned their former students, what happens with them during the years. We think the same way, that is why we check our senior dogs. Gandhi, the chocolate male dog looks the same as in his young ages, only on his chin and around his ears can be found grey hairs. We are
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On April 8th, one of our doubles was attacked in the 14th district. An unattended greater dog rushed at Veres Katalin and her guide dog. The wound on Zenit’s ear had to be sutured. He’s been to the scene of the attack several times since then and is not yet over the shock. Our Trainers
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Citrom’s (Lemon) puppy raisers, went for the spring holyday to a place where they could not take their puppy, therefore Citrom got from Piliscsaba, from a house near the forest to a busy traffic point of the 11th district of Budapest, where the trams were passing in every minute and the final stop of the
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Our guide dogs at Barathegyi Guide Dog School show a great example for everyone how to use scooters around town. They were all able to ride a scooter on their own, what’s more, they even tried riding in tandem. Once finished, they put their scooters back in an orderly fashion. Our three guide dogs, Zenit,
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Litter D’s two-week puppy rotation is almost over. Deka is a lovely little girl who has lived a quiet, peaceful life in the suburbs and has now conquered the city centre. The D litter puppies have reached an exciting age: they are 6 months old and it’s time for their puppy swap. This is when
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According to our experience, guide dogs have an unprecedentedly intense ability to bond with their owners, and we assume that this attachment is stronger than the attachment of other dogs to their owners. It is because they spend much more time together and have many more common experiences. In this situation, not only the dog
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We are delighted that Zsófia Lengyel has won the SuperWMN “Believe in yourself” award. She was accompanied on stage at Müpa Budapest by her guide dog Mokka. Zsófi works for equal opportunities in Székesfehérvár. On Monday evening, Zsófia Lengyel received the WMN Magazine “Believe in yourself” award, based on votes from the public and the
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The North-Hungarian Rehabilitation Centre for the Visually Impaired provides subsidised housing for the visually impaired in the city of Miskolc. Sheltered housing is available for visually impaired people who want to use community services instead of institutional care. The EU-funded building in Miskolcapolca can accommodate ten people in single and double rooms. Applications are particularly
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Brigitta Hegedüs and her guide dog Artúr graduated with flying colours from the University of Miskolc. Artúr proved that he is not only a guide dog but also an emotional support dog, helping Brigi in more ways than one. Some of the university professors even put the dog’s name on the register to check is
