Guide Dogs appeals for volunteer puppy walkers - Chesterfield, Derbyshire
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  • Guide Dogs’ is appealing for volunteers in Chesterfield and surrounding areas to socialise guide dog puppies, a volunteering role known as ‘puppy walking’.

    Puppy walking is an essential element in the development of a future guide dog. A volunteer puppy walker takes a puppy of around six weeks old into his home and nurtures it for the first year of its life. The puppy walker teaches the puppy basic commands and socialises it to as many different environments as possible, under the guidance of a Puppy Walking Supervisor. Puppy walkers give their puppy a firm foundation for its later training and life with a blind or partially-sighted person.

    Puppy walkers have to meet certain criteria, and to be considered for this role you need to:

    o be at home most of the day (puppies cannot be left for more than three hours)
    o be over eighteen years old
    o have suitable accommodation, ideally with secured, fenced garden or yard and have easy access to an appropriate relief area
    o ideally, not have any young children under three (although individual circumstances will be taken into consideration)
    o have regular access to car travel
    o be willing to familiarise the puppy with many different environments in preparation for its future role under the guidance of the Puppy Walking Supervisor

    If you or someone you know can answer ‘yes’ to the above questions and would like to know more about volunteering as a puppy walker, please contact the Guide Dogs Volunteering Team on tel: 0845 371 7771 or email: volunteer@guidedogs.org.uk
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