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The Mayor, Pilar Barreiro, today received the visit of President of the Association of Guide Dog Users of the Region of Murcia, María Jesús Cascales Mayor, accompanied by Chairman of the Eleven in the Autonomous Community, Germain Moya, who have exposed to the first municipal authority involves the problems blind people who use a guide dog.
According to Jesús María Cascales, outweigh the mental barriers that architecture, as there is a great ignorance about the law's dog, which allows access to the places and public transportation, the guide dog is not a pet but is doing a job is one with the person who accompanies and this, in turn, has to meet certain obligations to the animal health.
Barreiro has been very concerned by this problem, as well as the education and training process to be followed by the dogs to become guide dogs for the hand of ONCE, which then pays for life for the blind to that must follow.
Moya Germain explained the process followed by dogs and usually lasts between 12 and 15 months.
First copies are selected among the three most common breeds by genetics, which are golden retriever, Labrador and German shepherd pastor, especially the first two.
After confirming that they are healthy, they go to a foster family as they learn to live together while following a training course in the training school of ONCE in Madrid.
Finally, spend a period of adaptation to the person to accompany you to the end of his days.
ONCE currently delivers about 130 dogs to añoen throughout the country, but due to increased demand have agreements with schools for training of other countries to have more copies.
A meeting with the mayor, which have been delivered of a memory with the inscription I lend my eyes, also attended by the Secretary, Jesus Valero Ortín, a seller of coupons and a guide dog user, and Fina Robles managing director of ONCE in Cartagena, Juan Antonio Sanchez Rodriguez
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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