For a guide dog team, crossing the street is all about teamwork!Guide dogs and their handlers work together for a safe journey. Handlers listen for traffic cues and signal when it’s safe to go. Guide dogs are trained in “intelligent disobedience” using their skills to halt or refuse to move if they sense danger. Together, they take each step with confidence and care 🦮Video shows Gillian, a guide dog mobility instructor, working with Lorri, a female yellow lab. The duo is practicing crossing a s

Lorraine’s a Guide Dog in training of course she can: Find the seat Navigate safely forward And one day be a pawsome Guide Dog to her future Handler! [Video Description: Guide Dog Trainer Kirsten and Guide Dog in training Lorraine navigate around yellow barricades as Kirsten instructs Lorraine to find the way. At the end of the barricades there is a plastic chair and Kirsten instructs Lorraine to find the seat. Lorraine nudges the seat with her head and gets a treat. The Guide Dogs logo appears.

Watch a future Guide Dog in training! 🦮💛 Every Guide Dog’s journey begins with moments like this: early harness lessons, tiny steps, and big bursts of confidence. Across Queensland, over 70 dogs are in training right now, learning the skills that will one day give someone with low vision or blindness the independence to move safely and freely. It costs more than $50,000 to breed, raise and train each dog, and none of this life-changing work is possible without urgent community support. Your do

Ever wonder what goes into training a guide dog? Follow as a Guide Dog Apprentice practices a route with a future guide dog, Peter. Learn more about our guide dog program by visiting the guidedog.org.The video shows a guide dog apprentice walking on the sidewalk with Peter, a yellow lab and future guide dog. #guidedog #guidedogtraining #dogtraining #guidedogfoundation #assistancedog #doglover #doglife #traininghard #dogroutine #ablove #labrador #lablife | Guide Dog Foundation for the Blind

How to train a guide dog in 3️⃣ stages, brought to you by The Guide Puppy trainer, Michelle 🙌 [Video description: Michelle talks to camera while different guide dogs go through the training exercises she mentions] | Guide Dogs UK

The Journey Of A Guide Dog

Guide dogs are trained to safely guide their handlers around obstacles on the ground and above! They navigate paths, avoiding anything that could block or trip their handler and even scanning for overhead hazards.Curious about how guide dogs work? Drop your questions in the comments below! 🦮 The video shows a female black lab, Petunia, guiding her handler, Audrey, around a makeshift obstacle on the back squares of the Guide Dog Foundation’s National Headquarters. Petunia walks up to the obstacl