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The minimum age requirement to be a primary puppy raiser for Guide Dogs for the Blind.
What is 9?
The average age a GDB puppy returns to campus for formal training (in a non-pandemic year).
What is 15 months old?
A "stick-like" device used by many people who are blind or visually impaired to scan surroundings for obstacles.
What is a white cane?
The 3 dog breeds GDB uses.
What are Labrador Retrievers, Golden Retrievers, and Lab/Golden crosses?
The name of the oldest guide dog school in the United States.
What is The Seeing Eye?
The year Guide dogs for the Blind was founded.
When is 1942?
The number of commands puppy raisers are required to teach puppies before formal training.
What is 13?
A form of written language for blind people, in which characters are represented by patterns of raised dots that are felt with the fingertips.
What is Braille?
The title given to male breeding dogs that have fathered a litter.
What is a sire?
The name of the first guide dog from GDB.
Who is Blondie?
The average number of volunteers it takes to help a single puppy become a guide dog.
What is 251?
The number of phases in formal training GDB pups must pass in order to become a guide dog.
What is 8?
The name of the law that gives guide dogs public access rights in the United States.
What is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)?
The general gestation period of a dog.
What is 9 weeks?
The year guide dogs (and other service animals) were given public access rights in the USA under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
When is 1990?
The approximate number of puppies Guide Dogs for the Blind whelps every (non-pandemic) year.
What is 800?
The average cost of a guide dog harness.
What is $500?
The name of the oldest school for the blind in the United States.
What is Perkins School for the Blind?
The farthest (in miles) one can live from GDB's San Rafael campus in order to be a breeder custodian.
What is 50 miles?
The year GDB opened their second campus in Boring, Oregon.
When is 1995?
The approximate number of guide dog teams currently in the field across North America.
What is 2,100?
The number of weeks GDB clients spend training on campus with their guide dog.
What is 2 weeks?
The name of the (typically yellow) ground surface indicators placed at curbs and cross walks designed to assist and warn pedestrians who are blind or visually impaired.
What are truncated domes?
The name of the building GDB puppies are whelped in.
What is the Puppy Center?
The total number of guide dog organizations in the United States.
What is 17?