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Graduates

Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides will provide follow-up support to our graduates for the entire working life of the Dog Guide. Our comprehensive follow-up support includes phone/email communication, in-home visits, community education, and community networking.
- Graduate Support
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Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides will provide follow-up support to our graduates for the entire working life of the Dog Guide. Our comprehensive follow-up support includes phone/email communication, in-home visits, community education, and community networking.- Trainers will visit all of our graduates in their home after they return home from class.
- Our training team will contact all of our graduates once per year by telephone or email.
- Our training team is available all year long for our graduates when you have questions or issues that arise from your Dog Guide and your specific needs. If a phone/email consultation does not fix the issues, then a trainer will arrange for an in-home visit when one of our trainers is in your area.
Regardless of the challenges that you face in regards to your Dog Guide, Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides is committed to supporting our graduates in their communities. Some of the common challenges include:- Emergency veterinarian care- This can be a very difficult and expensive time for our graduates. Our client services department will help you access some of the community supports available throughout the country to help offset the cost of emergency care for your Dog Guide.
- Access and Discrimination Challenges- Despite provincial laws and human rights in place throughout Canada that protect your rights as an individual with a Dog Guide, there may be times when you are discriminated against. Support is always available to you from our training team, specifically client services, when you have been denied access or discriminated against in other ways. We are able to explore the laws that protect you and the options that are available to you moving forward.
- Travel- Whether you are travelling within Canada or internationally, our training team can help prepare you for travelling with a Dog Guide. We will help you explore and solve issues that may arise around travelling, accommodations, environment, and other travel related challenges.
- Contacts
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Client ServicesEmail 1 (800) 768-3030 Ext. 289 Greg Clarke
CVC Head TrainerEmail Greg 1 (800) 768-3030 Ext. 227 Rhonda Workman
HD & SD Head TrainerEmail Rhonda 1 (800) 768-3030 Ext. 230 Julie Gaboury
SRD & DAD Head TrainerEmail Julie 1 (800) 768-3030 Ext. 225 Courtney Starr
AAD Head TrainerEmail Courtney 1 (800) 768-3030 Ext. 290 Information
ReceptionistEmail Reception 1 (800) 768-3030 Ext. 0
- Retiring a Dog Guide
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All of our Dog Guides must one day hang up their harness and retire from being an active Dog Guide. Lions Foundation of Canada does not have a pre-determined age at which a Dog Guide must be retired, however most Dog Guides will work until they are 8-10 years old. Every Dog Guide is in a unique situation, and so our training team will work with you and your veterinarian to determine when it is time to retire your Dog Guide. Typically a Dog Guide is retired due to health issues or slowing down, however there can be other reasons as well.
When it is time to retire a Dog Guide, it can be a very emotional and difficult time as the reality that your working life together is coming to an end. Our training team will help you through the steps of retirement and easing the transition.
Lions Foundation of Canada Dog Guides will make every effort along with the graduate to find great homes for all of our retired Dog Guides. If applicable, retired dog guides will live in the homes of their former handlers, or family and friends of their former handler. Some of the retired Dog Guides will be placed with their former foster families, while others will be adopted out by our staff to applicant families in our community.
We urge you to contact us if you feel your Dog Guide is slowing down or you feel that it may be time to talk about retirement. Our staff will work with you along the way, and look to help both you and your Dog Guide into retirement. Once retired, many of our graduates will apply for a successor dog when they feel they are ready. Obviously our graduates will never be able to replace a retired Dog Guide, but will instead travel a new journey with a new companion. When you are ready for a successor Dog Guide - please call or email client-services@dogguides.com
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- Public Access
Service dog users are protected by law to have their service dog accompany them in public places under the following provincial laws.
British Columbia
Guide Animal Act
Alberta
Blind Person’s Rights Act
Service Dogs Act
Saskatchewan
Human Rights Code
Manitoba
Human Rights Code
The Service Animals Protection Act
Ontario
Blind Persons Rights Act
Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act
Human Rights Code
Quebec
An Act to secure the handicapped in the exercise of their rights
Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms
New Brunswick
Human Rights Act
Nova Scotia
Blind Persons Rights Act
Human Rights Act
Service Dog Act
Newfoundland & Labrador
Service Dogs Act
Prince Edward Island
Human Rights Act
Nunavut
Human Rights Act
Northwest Territories
Human Rights Act
Yukon
Human Rights Act
- Forms
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Health Forms by Program
Canine Vision (download)
Hearing (download)
Autism Assistance (download)
Service (download)
Seizure Response (download)
Diabetic Alert (download)
Facility Support (download)CAGADS School Protocol Form (download)
Dear Family and Friends Letter (download)
To update your address or To request equipment,
please contact
client-services@dogguides.com - Government Documents
Take Charge of Your Travel
Emergency Preparedness for People with Disabilities
Registered Disability Savings Plan
- Weight Management Chart for Dog Guides
- Download: Weight Management Chart (pdf)