#guide dogs

[a-queer-seminarian]

From "Guide Dogs Don’t Lead Blind People. We Wander as One" by Haben Girma in Disability Visibility, 2020

Mylo beelined for the elevator, and then, reading the braille labels, I pressed the button for the main level. The doors opened, and I directed Mylo across the lobby toward the front doors. “Right.” He turned down a hallway. “Right.” He turned into a room that felt empty. “Sorry, not this one. Mylo, left.” I gestured for him to go back to the hall. “Right.” He turned into the next room.

The delightful aroma of food and coffee at last wafted over from the far wall. “Here it is! Forward.” After I ordered my hard-earned breakfast, another wedding guest approached us.

“Haben, hi! It’s Michael. Who brought you here?”

I passed the credit to Mylo; constantly confronting ableism is tiring work. But someday the world will recognize that a Deafblind person charts her own path through the unknown. For now I know it—and so does Mylo. He takes his lead from me.

[laughingsquid]

A Hilarious 'Hale and Pace' Sketch That Shows Why Cats Aren't Good at Being Guide Dogs

[thisis--ableism]

Ugh... I can't get out of my mind just...

Going to the post office and seeing a sign saying "no animals allowed other than seeing-eye service dogs" and just???? It rubbed me off such a wrong way.... cause like... services dogs exist for PLENTY of things aside from blindness???

Most of those signs were put into practice far before the ADA was passed, and federal buildings are woefully under-updated.

[razzek]

April 29 is International Guide Dog Day! If you donate to The Seeing Eye in the next couple days, it will be matched and doubled. This is Petey's school and where I've gotten all four (hopefully soon to be five) of my amazing guides. :)

Seeing Eye® | Guide Dogs for the Blind & Independence Training

Discover The Seeing Eye®, the world’s oldest guide dog school, dedicated to training guide dogs and empowering people who are blind or visua

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Warwickshire guide dog charity welcomes largest litter in years - BBC News

A charity that breeds and trains guide dogs has welcomed its largest litter for three years - 13 puppies affectionately known as "the Baker's Dozen".

The 13 new additions to Guide Dogs HQ in Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, have been given bakery-themed names, inspired by sweet and savoury treats.

The boys are Biscuit, Crumble, Bagel, Crumpet, Rye, Tiger and Pretzel, and the girls are Apple, Eccles, Cocoa, Chelsea, Custard and Ginger

[ireadwithmyears]

Going up to a guide dog user and saying, to their dog, something along the lines of “your mommy doesn’t let me pet you. I know, it’s so unfair,” in a baby voice is first of all counterproductive, because that’s just as distracting for the dog as petting them would be, and second of all, is actually really casually guilt trippy and I don’t like it

[i-hope-this-is-a-phase]

For those wondering where I’ve been: I got a guide dog!

I’ve spent the past three weeks working with my new partner Linda: we’ve been training together for twelve hours a day, and now it’s time for us to come home.

She’s an incredible dog, and I’m so glad I got to take her home :)

[razzekart]

One of the things giving me a break from missing my guide Petey has been playing Luigi’s Mansion 3. Somewhere out there a few people like blind Luigi. So… why not Polterpup the guide ghost? :)

ID: Luigi, a tall man in a green sweater and jeans with a thick mustache, smiles as he walks with his guide dog’s harness handle in one hand. His dog is a somewhat transparent ghost, tongue lolling in a happy grin, his handler and harness somewhat visible through his transparent body.