Role Description:
We rely on volunteers like you to help us improve the lives of people with sight loss. In this role your support will include:
• Following Guide Dogs Puppy Raising for Excellent Partnerships (PREP) programme, to raise and prepare a puppy to become a guide dog.
• Using our guidelines to care for your puppy e.g., providing sufficient exercise.
• Familiarising a puppy to a wide range of environments.
• Teaching a puppy to be alone by gradually building up from a few minutes to a maximum of 4 hours.
• Attending regular puppy classes.
• Meeting regularly with Guide Dogs representatives to discuss your pup’s development.
• Completing regular on-line questionnaires to help us monitor puppy progress
Volunteering is a two-way street, so in return for your time you will get;
• The satisfaction in knowing you are supporting people with sight loss to live actively, independently, and well.
• The challenge and reward of seeing a puppy develop in your home.
• The opportunity to learn and develop your understanding in dog body language, learning theory, the human animal bond and the life of a Guide Dog.