ACT. The Breeding Centre. Puppy care.
The Seeing Eye Dog breeding program is considered one of the most important processes of successfully producing high quality, healthy and intelligent working dogs. With genetically sound and proven breeding dogs, everything that follows (puppy production and dog training) is built upon a solid foundation.
Crucial to the success of any breeding programme is the quality of the stock brought in to replace stock that retire or are removed. It is Guide Dogs' aim to ensure the selection process is rigorous and comprehensive, so that only the very best dogs are added to the programme, in terms of both health and temperament.
Each year, guide dog schools—independent nonprofit organizations that provide guide dogs for blind and visually impaired individuals—breed close to 3000 dogs. When so many intelligent, loving shelter dogs are in need of homes, why don't guide dog schools rescue dogs like some of the other service-dog programs?
Our Breeding Program. Have you ever wondered where Guide Dog Foundation puppies come from – before they go out as working guide or service dogs, even before puppies go to puppy raiser families? They come from our very own breeding department.
In October 2010, Guide Dogs of Texas had great cause for celebration. After more than 20 years of raising and training guide dog puppies, the organization's first brood, Poppy – who was part of GDTX's pilot, in-house, breeding program – delivered a litter of eight, yellow Labrador puppies. These healthy Labs progressed
Leader Dogs for the Blind has a cryogenics lab where we freeze or chill semen and have stored approximately 60 different stud dogs. Leader Dogs for the Blind's breeding program is overseen by a committee comprised of six staff members including veterinarians, puppy development, breeding manager and guide dog
A clearly stated agreement on the use of such stud dogs will be agreed by both parties; 'Line breed' only where this is beneficial to the Guide Dogs breeding programme. Guide Dogs will not breed from a dog or bitch where this could in any way be harmful to the dog or the breed. Guide Dogs does not practice 'in-breeding'
In our earliest days, most of our dogs came from animal shelters. It soon became evident that we were looking for something very specific: dogs that not only had excellent health, intelligence and temperament, but also exhibited a willingness to work and thrive on praise. Our specialized breeding program was started in the

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February 2018