Mrs Skelton works with the Guide Dog Foundation which is a very important job. She helps to look after the dogs that will eventually go to help a blind person in New Zealand. We got to meet Mrs Skelton and Cara and learnt a lot about her job.
= Guide dogs help blind people
= It takes 6 months to train a puppy
= When the harness goes on... the dog is at work, when it comes off.... the dog is a dog again
= When a puppy is 6 weeks old it goes to a puppy walker family
= They stay with a family for a year
= Guide dogs are allowed almost anywhere except the zoo and hospitals
= It costs upwards of $20,000 to raise and train a puppy
= There are 250 working guide dogs in NZ
= When a person gets a guide dog it feels like they have won Lotto
= Cara is off to Christchurch to live with and help an old woman
= If a guide dog gets lost it can be found because it has a special tag on its collar and a microchip
Thank you Mrs Skelton for bringing in a very special dog to meet us, she was extremely well behaved.
7 comments:
I love my mum she's cool and we miss cara.KG.Room17.
i like guide dogs they are cute,but kara, its kind of funny she likes to sleep when its working time lol.
K.C Room17
i didn't even realise cara left all ready
K.C room17
I miss cara so does kylie.
KF.KG
cool!working in a guide dog foundation must be exiting! AP r20
cara makes me miss my puppy that past away,but unless i'm going to get 2 puppy when i'm about a teen.
k.c room17
cara's so cute
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