Blindfold Walk with a Guide Dog

After we watched our sweet puppies prance away to their new life, one of the SEGD IFT activities is a blindfold walk with a Guide Dog in harness.

Wearing their blackout sunglasses I could only see a thin sliver of light. That is unnerving!

The Guide Dog guided me around the curved path.

He then stopped me at the curb before I walked out into the road and potential traffic.

At the end of our walk I was able to tell him how good he was and love him to bits.


I have to say, it was an incredible relief to be able to take those blackout glasses off.

There are different degrees of blindness, but the need to trust the dog's decisions would be the same for every vision impaired Guide Dog Handler.

That trust with a Guide Dog is what creates an incredible bond between the vision impaired person and their Guide Dog.

They become a team.

As a Puppy Raiser we contribute to the start of that partnership, freedom and confidence.