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    • Guided Sessions
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    • Guide Dog Program
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  • FAQs
  • Contact Us
  • Meet Tia Livengood

This is not a one-size-fits-all placement.

This is a highly individualized guide dog program designed to build a safe, confident, and independent partnership between you and your dog.


Our Guide Dog Program is for individuals who are blind or visually impaired and ready to increase their independence through skilled mobility with a guide dog. Each dog is carefully selected, trained, and matched to fit your lifestyle, pace, and real-world needs. From the first step to working as a team, we are right there with you.


What’s Included:

▪︎ Professionally trained guide dog

▪︎ 10-day in-home matching and training period in your environment

▪︎ Structured training in real-world navigation including streets, stores, obstacles, and decision-making

▪︎ Obedience and advanced guide work tailored to your daily life

▪︎ One-on-one, hands-on instruction throughout the matching process

▪︎ Ongoing support and follow-up for the lifetime of the team


Why This Program Stands Out:

▪︎ Home-raised dogs. Our dogs live in a home, not a kennel

▪︎ Real-world training. We train where you actually live and move

▪︎ Customized matching. Your dog is selected for you, not assigned from a list

▪︎ Independence-focused. Every step of training is built around increasing your mobility and confidence

▪︎ Ongoing support. We stay involved long after placement


While the guide dog is provided at no cost, handlers are responsible for a matching and training fee. This covers the intensive in-home training, travel, and hands-on instruction required to build a safe and effective working partnership during the matching period. Please contact us for information about the matching and training fee. 


This is more than receiving a dog.


It is learning how to move through the world with clarity, safety, and confidence.


Let’s build your team, one step at a time.

The First Guide Team:

 Morris Frank and Buddy in 1928. Buddy, originally named Kiss, was a German Shepherd Dog. Mr. Frank trained Buddy in Germany and later returned to the United States. At first, people didn’t believe a dog could safely guide a blind person through busy streets. So he proved it by crossing a crowded street in New York City with Buddy guiding him. 

 

 That moment led to the founding of The Seeing Eye in 1929, which became the first guide dog school in the United States.


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