Guide Dog Graduation: Northern Westchester-Based Nonprofit Provides Pups To Homes Across US
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chappaqua.dailyvoice.com— A new class of guide dogs that graduated from a New York nonprofit organization – including one dog going to serve the organization’s CEO – demonstrates the group’s 60-year commitment to changing the lives of people with vision loss or blindness. On Friday, April 12, Guiding Eyes for the Blind held one of its biannual guide dog graduations, celebrating the hard work of volunteers and pups alike and officially transferring the furry friends’ care to their new owners. However, this graduation...
www.thestar.co.uk—UK’s first assistance sausage dog Chorizo graduates meaning wheelchair-using owner can now leave home alone. A dachshund trained at a Sheffield disability charity has become the first of her breed to be an assistance dog in the UK. Sausage dog Chorizo recently graduated with her owner, Heather, from Support Dogs’ disability assistance programme. Heather, who has Multiple Sclerosis and uses a wheelchair, can now leave the house on her own thanks to Chorizo. Nicola Wood, an instructor with Support Dogs, said: “She opens and closes a door in the client’s house which is impossible for her to do in a...
dailym.ai—Pro-Palestinian protests are spreading like wildfire across US universities, with Jewish students advised to stay home and campus chiefs accused of pandering to the woke Left. Now they might reach the UK . The drums have been beating for nearly a fortnight at Manhattan's Columbia University, the noise reverberating around the campus of one of America's most prestigious seats of learning.
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