Cool gift idea

[Cat of Ulthar]

It was the SO's birthday, and I was wrecking my brain trying to come up with a cool gift. I found a very cool one: We adopted a puppy.

The SO loves dogs, but we cannot have any. He also thinks guide dogs for the blind are a very good cause. The Dutch society for guide dogs have this cool concept: Adopt a puppy and help him to become a guide dog. You (and some more people) pay a certain amount every month, which goes to training a puppy to become a guide dog. In return, you get photo's and newsletters telling you how "your" puppy is doing.

I was a bit uncertain how he would like it, as it is not really a gift for him, but he loved it.:)

Here's our Griffin:

[Freedom Canadian]

Neat !

Can you meet the dog eventually ?

[Cat of Ulthar]

No, unfortunately. I can imagine though, some adoptive parents might get ideas like they should have a say in how the dog gets raised because they are paying for it, or something. As the training for a guide dog is very intensive, they prefer not to expose the pup to even more than he already has to.

[Freedom Canadian]

That makes sense.

[FeatsofClay]

That may be one of the cutest puppy pictures ever.

Very noble, Kitty of Ulthar. Well played.

[Janos]

Neat gift!

Here (in California at least), you have to go through a screening and selection process to be a guide dog family. It's a full intensive background check and screening process.

Then you get the puppy for 10-16 months where he's yours to raise (but with some strict guidelines and training expectations). Then they take him and enroll him in a training school were you can visit him a few times, but they gradually fade him out.

But the whole process is paid for and doesn't cost you much at all.

[doc]

Much better then a star named after you, great idead Cat

[Cat of Ulthar]

Here (in California at least), you have to go through a screening and selection process to be a guide dog family. It's a full intensive background check and screening process.

Then you get the puppy for 10-16 months where he's yours to raise (but with some strict guidelines and training expectations). Then they take him and enroll him in a training school were you can visit him a few times, but they gradually fade him out.

But the whole process is paid for and doesn't cost you much at all.

Ah, that's the same as here. Just to be clear, we are not the guide dog family, we are just the ones who help pay the guide dog family to raise the pup.

[Janos]

Ah, that's the same as here. Just to be clear, we are not the guide dog family, we are just the ones who help pay the guide dog family to raise the pup.

Interesting! Thanks for sharing Cat. My lady love is a dog fanatic too, so I may try to find a similiar situation around here to contribute to.

[Priss]

It was the SO's birthday, and I was wrecking my brain trying to come up with a cool gift. I found a very cool one: We adopted a puppy.

The SO loves dogs, but we cannot have any. He also thinks guide dogs for the blind are a very good cause. The Dutch society for guide dogs have this cool concept: Adopt a puppy and help him to become a guide dog. You (and some more people) pay a certain amount every month, which goes to training a puppy to become a guide dog. In return, you get photo's and newsletters telling you how "your" puppy is doing.

I was a bit uncertain how he would like it, as it is not really a gift for him, but he loved it.:)

Here's our Griffin:
That's really cool.

I used to have a grey wolf in Montana that I paid take care of. These were from little packages you bought at the Discovery Store or the Nature Company. You got little pictures of the wolf and his pack and you had an invitation to visit the habitat if you were ever in the area and wanted to actually meet your wolf. The pack has sense been moved to CO I believe.