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Companion dogs for adults.

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Guide dogs for the Blind has a new companion dog service which offers friendship and emotional support to adults with sight loss and their families. These well-behaved and well-trained dogs can help build your confidence and improve your wellbeing by giving you a reason to get out more. You’ll enjoy the health benefits of a more active lifestyle as well as the unconditional love of one of these wonderful dogs. At present, this service is only available for adults with a vision impairment who have sighted support within the household.

The dogs are owned by Guide Dogs throughout their service. These dogs are usually dogs that have been trained in the Guide Dogs scheme at some point, but had to leave because they weren’t suitable. Due to either being too friendly, needing medication or just didn’t suit the scheme.

These are NOT guide dogs and shouldn’t be used as one. You cannot enter shops with a companion dog like you can with a guide dog.

For more information, please click on the link below.

Link to Guide Dogs website page about companion dogs for adults

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Buddy dogs for children.

Posted on by One Vision

The Guide Dogs for the Blinds new scheme – buddy dogs. Brings a new friend into the lives of children with sight loss. By helping to develop their self-confidence, improve relationships and build a greater sense of trust, these dogs can have a hugely positive effect on your child’s wellbeing – and your family, too.

These dogs weren’t suited to being a guide dog. This means you cannot use them as a guide dog or enter premises, shops with the dog.

Please click on the link below for information.

Click here to go to the Guide Dogs website for information on Buddy dogs

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How I read books at the moment.

Posted on by One Vision

Thinking about my Mum today as it would have been her 81st birthday. I remembered my favourite book when I was a little girl.

I’ve got a collection of Ladybird Books. #geek. Ones that I remembered from when I was a child.

The Discontented Pony book cover. Horse with foal.

This is my favourite one. (Photo above. The Discontented Pony) I was so young though I couldn’t remember the story. The illustrations I remember vividly, as I suppose my Mum would have read it to me and I would have only looked at the pictures. I was obsessed with horses when I was a child. So loved this book.

Horse and gallopers roundabout

I did used to like reading a proper book. Usually autobiographies, historical, crime or about space. Don’t really like fiction books at all. I would rather learn something real. I’ve still got some books I loved from my teenage years. Well worn but just didn’t have the heart to give them away.

So when it was too hard to read a book, book. I started to read them on my mobile phone. At least you can adjust the font. It became increasingly annoying though as you didn’t get many words to the page. You were just flicking it all the time.

Now I have a 10.1 inch screen tablet. This is loads better and I enjoy reading again for a little while until my eyes sort of say “Right, we’ve had enough now”

Either through pain developing around the sockets, a headache, or just everything becomes extremely blurry with double vision. All of a sudden. Just like that.

So this is how I read at the moment.