BARÁTHEGYI Guide Dog School
Tag: labrador
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Borsó’s nine puppies are thriving and have changed a lot in the past two weeks. The little group is becoming more active, louder and more curious day by day, while Borsó is a caring, routine mother who looks after them during their first, very important stage of life. Melinda Leidgeb, Borsó’s owner, is following every
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Baráthegyi Guide and Assistance Dog School Foundation began its operations twenty years ago. Over the past two decades, we have provided more than two hundred guide dogs to visually impaired applicants, and in recent years we have also been involved in the training of personal assistance, mobility assistance and therapy dogs. In the anniversary year,
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Marcsi-futi started from friendly connections and has grown into a larger circle of friends and a professional community. We develop the guide dog trainees, we learn a lot from our trainer and from each other — all while having a great time. Shared programs and outings have become a kind of small celebration for our
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Borsó gave birth to nine puppies on the night of January 21st. There are yellow and black girls and boys among them. All are beautiful, viable puppies. Our dam’s owner, Melinda Leidgeb, reported on how their first two days went. It is a great excitement for Melinda to help Borsó with the care of the
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This week, Topáz’s puppies are moving to their puppy-raiser homes, as they are all ready for the transition. Before that, in the rainy weather, what else could they do but happily run around the garden, muddy from head to toe. Alongside this joyful news, we must also share a sad one. This week, we said
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Topáz’s puppies enthusiastically threw themselves into challenging, playful tasks: at seven weeks old, we conducted their first puppy test. We spoke with our puppy foster coordinator about how she finds matches between foster families and puppies. Guide dog training organizations, including the Baráthegyi Guide Dog School, conduct a brief but comprehensive test series with puppies
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In the blink of an eye, they understood that the one who sits down nicely gets the reward. Of course, some tried to get back in line more than once… Topáz’s puppies are now 7 weeks old, and why wouldn’t they have grown up with a bit of cunning? Topáz’s 7-week-old puppies already weigh 5
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Topaz’s puppies have just eaten their first solid food. According to the general rule, such additional feeding can be started at three weeks of their age, if there is not enough milk to keep them completely full. Topaz’s litter with nine puppies is undoubtedly wonderfully uniform, everyone is swelling with strength and developing quickly. Only
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Two average months pass quickly, but to someone who raises puppies, it seems like at least half a year. The litter with the letter M moved to volunteer puppy-raising families this week. Strengthened and enthusiastic, they begin their new phase of life, which will last until they are one to one and a half years
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She was really looking forward to them, and every day since then has been filled with excitement – no wonder, since this is the first litter born to Nadinka, and they are the first puppies of our dog Darázs. Our puppy raiser hosted us in her apartment in Zugló, where she is giving home to
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Darinka Farkas began organizing a community for visually impaired and sighted people in February 2024. She is at home in this circle, as she has been training guide dogs for 21 years and has been a member of our foundation for nine years. In addition to training, she has long strived to bring guide dog
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Azúr’s puppies are five weeks old now and they are visibly developing day by day – this is what Sára Kovács, the beloved caregiver of the little ones told us. The puppies are growing more active and curious, and their personalities are steadily developing. They’re learning to climb stairs In puppyhood it is not recommended
