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Guide Dogs
- VO102686
In this role, you will be providing a puppy with a vital foundation for its future role as a guide dog. This is a full-time volunteering opportunity as a puppy will live with you in your home for around 12-16 months.
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.
Experience required
Ideally you will:
· Have time to invest in raising a puppy.
· Be physically able to handle large breed dogs (around 25-40kg).
· Have your own car or access to a car.
· Have your own home or written permission to have a dog in the home.
· Have access to a secure area where the puppy could go to the toilet during the day.
· Be able to access online content and training materials (you will need your own email address).
Travel details
Dundee (DD1, DD2,DD3,DD4 & DD5 POSTCODE AREAS)
Travel expenses
Volunteering for Guide Dogs should never leave you out of pocket. We’ll make sure we pay any expenses related to volunteering with us, including veterinary costs, food costs for the puppy and other materials needed for the puppy’s training.
We will also pay an optional allowance of up to £100 a year to offset additional costs, and we have working agreements with certain bus and train operating companies, letting you take your puppy on short training journeys free of charge.
Support
Training details
As a volunteer you'll have access to our world-class training programme, to implement with your puppy in training, a great bonus for any dog owner! This is delivered in an interactive and engaging manner, using a mixture of different learning techniques virtually e.g., videos, documents and e-learning modules.
You'll receive plenty of support from your volunteer manager who will help you work through these training modules with your puppy. We also offer puppy classes for puppy raisers in the local area to get together, share stories and provide refreshers on training techniques.
Restrictions
Minimum age: 18
Availability
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Please fill out this form to register your interest in the opportunity Puppy Raiser with Guide Dogs
Your email address and phone number will only be used by the organisation/TSI you are contacting to discuss in more detail the opportunity you are enquiring about.
Your details and message will be sent to:
Allison` Wines, Guide Dogs
Allison` Wines, Guide Dogs
Email address: allison.wines@guidedogs.org.uk
Phone number: 01307 740087
A copy will be sent to the organisation that supports volunteering in Dundee:
Contact name: Dundee Volunteer & Voluntary Action
Email address: volunteer@dvva.scot
Phone: 01382 305705
Thank you for registering your interest in Puppy Raiser with Guide Dogs.
Guide Dogs and Guide Dogshave both been sent your details and message, they will respond to you at the email address you provided.
Something has gone wrong, please let us know about this issue at milosupport@scvo.scot quoting reference #VO102686.