BARÁTHEGYI Guide Dog School
Tag: puppy raiser
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Bathing is a real enjoyment for the dogs, but it is important that during it, we pay attention to them and others too. We looked at how two service dogs in training play on the bank of the Danube. After this, we shared a few thoughts with you about what an owner must watch out
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On August 1, a beautiful litter of puppies was born at our Foundation. The litter consists of seven puppies—two boys and five girls—with both yellow and black coats. In early October, the future volunteer puppy raisers will be able to take Malina’s nine-week-old puppies home and form a lifelong friendship with the wonderful guide dogs
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Also in July a lot of our programs were about spending time together, the power of the community and promoting the case of guide dogs. In the life of the Baráthegyi Guide Dog School Foundation not only the training of the dogs is important, but that kind of meetings what bring closer the guide dogs,
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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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Raising a family pet and raising a future guide dog are both great adventures, but the first year of a guide dog puppy’s life is usually much more eventful than that of an average pet. This period is not only about an adorable, but well-behaved puppy also growing up — it is about laying the
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Our trainer Mónika Köbli organizes excursions several times a year for clients who have received guide dogs from our foundation. Owners can enjoy nature walks in the company of their dogs with the help of volunteer sighted companions. The walks were called “Móni and the paper puppies” and are usually small in number so that
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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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Our dog Parfé has been helping his visually impaired owner for years and regularly meets with his puppy raiser. This year they spent two weeks on vacation together. We asked Márta Vucseta to write an article about how she raised our guide dog and to tell us about their vacations together. The bond lives on Parfé
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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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Zoltán Cser has worked hard in the coal mine in the city of Ajka for 22 years. Moving up the career ladder, he mastered the collier profession and became a leader who was responsible for his colleagues’ lives in the deep stulms of the mine. Not long before his retirement, he decided to keep on
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We consider it important to build a close relationship between guide dog owners and thevolunteers of our foundation. The summer and autumn picnics went so well that everyone is looking forward to the meetings. The joint occasions also allow the puppy raisers to see how much help the dogs raised by them give to their
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It is a complicated process before a puppy becomes a guide dog. Labrador puppies live with our puppy raisers until they are one year old. Letting the puppy go can be a difficult process for our puppy raisers, so we offer help as follows. The most frequently asked question by those interested in raising a
