Several yellow labs, a few golden retrievers and two black labs lay calmly in green puppy vests on a stone patio
Puppy Pile: Guide Dogs for the Blind puppies in training. Photo description available. (Madi Alexander)

So You’re Going to Raise a Guide Dog Puppy?

Madi Alexander

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It’s happening! We’ve filled out applications, signed forms, studied pages and pages of the manual, gone to training classes and meetings, puppy-proofed our apartment, and so much more.

In the next few weeks, I get to start something I’ve wanted to do for years: raise a guide dog puppy. My partner Tony and I are becoming puppy raisers for Guide Dogs for the Blind (GDB), a non-profit guide…

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Madi Alexander

Oklahoman. Journalist in Dallas. I like dogs, tacos, hiking and sweaters. Follow me on Twitter: @MadiLAlexander [she/her] 🏳️‍🌈