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Guide Dog of the Year 2010 finalists announced!

by Your News Hound on July 14, 2010

Remember guide dog Moss? We are excited to announce that Moss and two other “top dogs” have been chosen as category winners for the first judging stage in this year’s Guide Dog of the Year awards.

Moss has won the “Life changing” category, having learned 20 routes in six months to enable owner Dawn Sergeant to gain back her independence and return to work.

“Outstanding work” category winner Gus, is owned by student Jemma Brown. Gus and Jemma share an active lifestyle crammed full of lectures, touring with Jemma’s cricket team and shopping!

Guide dog Gino is “top dog” in the “beyond the call of duty” section. Gino, owned by Maxine Ingram, barked to warn bus passengers that a man on board was going to have a fit thus ensuring that first aid treatment was quickly given.

Readers of Woman’s Weekly and Guide Dogs Chief Executive Richard Leaman, will now have the tough challenge of choosing which of the deserving three will be crowned Guide Dog of the Year 2010.

Good luck to all!

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Have you met guide dog Moss?

by Your News Hound on May 7, 2010

Since starting Guide Dogs numerous pages on Facebook we have gained many new friends and stumbled upon some fantastic pages. One of them is – My guide dog Moss. Moss and his guide dog owner have been doing a fantastic job writing about the life you lead in a partnership.

Recently we posted a link to our latest young guide dog owner’s FB page – Andrea on Moss’ FB page and here’s what his response was:

Guide dog Moss.

Guide dog Moss.

This is a lovely page, I too have optic Atrophy like Andrea, I was told at 19 and registered partially sighted, then registered blind at 24. Moss has givin me everything, hes enabled me to continue my job as a Tax officer, to be a single mum to my little girl and live independantly. I owe a great deal of my independance to Moss. Hes shown me that anything is possible if you try and that  nothing is beyond my grasp. At 27 I’m now living the the life of ndependance that I was previously stopped from living, I dont have to reply on anyone and Moss never judges me. He’s always there for me no matter what.

We wanted to say ‘thank you’ for such wonderful comment.

There is thousands of blind and partially-sighted people never leave home alone and Guide Dogs aims is to help people with the skills they need to get around and move on with their lives.  Our work would not be possible and complete without your support and the great work the guide dog owners do to raise awareness. We are able to create two new partnerships each day. That’s two more people every day, who gain back their independence.

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