Look after a Guide Dog Mum in your home

Look after a Guide Dog Mum in your home

Organisation name: Guide Dogs

Role: Breeding Dog Holder - Brood

Application: Through the Guide Dogs website

Location: parts of the Midlands, Oxfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Berkshire and surrounding areas. please visit the website to find out if this role is available where you live.

Hours: The dog will live in your home, from 12 months old, for around six years whilst they are in the breeding programme (with the option to re-home after this, once the guide dog mum retires at around seven years-old.) 

Guide Dogs helps people with sight loss live the life they choose.

If you have space in your home and heart, for a guide dog mum who will be bringing the next generation of guide dogs in the world, then this could be the role for you! A role where you can care and nurture for a guide dog mum and plenty of little puppies when they arrive. 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Providing a safe, secure, and welcoming home environment for the Guide Dogs Mum.
  • Ensuring the Guide Dogs Mum is fed, exercised, and cared for to maintain excellent health.
  • Using positive reinforcement training techniques to teach or maintain behaviours.
  • Ensuring the dog is not left alone for more than 4 hours in a 24-hour period.
  • Providing support to the Guide Dogs Mum when giving birth in your home and caring for a litter of puppies in your home for 7 to 8 weeks.

Ideally you will: 

  • Have a home with a safely fenced garden.
  • Have dog handling experience but not essential.
  • Have a clean driving licence is desirable and access to a car you are insured to drive.
  • Be willing to travel to the agreed Guide Dogs Centre when required.

You’ll get:

  • The opportunity to care for and have the companionship of a dog in your own home.
  • Dedicated support to develop your dog handling and welfare knowledge.
  • The satisfaction that you are part of a committed team with a pivotal role in providing guide dogs for people living with a vision impairment.
  • Volunteering for Guide Dogs should never leave you out of pocket. We’ll make sure we pay any expenses related to your volunteering with us in line with our policy. 

Training and support 

  • Dog knowledge, care, and handling
  • Looking after your Guide Dog mum and her puppies

 

If you have questions about the training requirements, we can answer these at your interview along with any other support or accessibility needs you may have. 

Minimum age for this role: 18

No expiry date for this role currently.

 

Contact email: volunteerattraction@guidedogs.org.uk  

 

Ready to join the pack? Visit the Guide Dogs website

Please follow our link above to apply rather than the form at the bottom of the page 

This role is advertised as part of TPP's Free Giving Back Services. This volunteer advertisement copy has been supplied to TPP and applicants apply direct to the organisation. Please contact the organisation directly if you have any questions about this volunteer role.

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