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Thank you for your interest in volunteering to raise a Guide Dog Puppy!

Dogs With Vision was established in 1996 with Dot Dill becoming its Leader in 1997. Dot's experience, perspective, energy, creativity and motivation provides strong, positive and capable Leadership benefiting all Club members.

The Club is a diverse group of volunteers (adults, teens, families, students, singles, retirees; 4-H and non-4-H youth) joined by the common goal of raising puppies to become guide dogs for visually impaired individuals. Club members share a love of dogs, a desire to make a positive difference in the community and in the lives of blind people, a willingness to be ambassadors for Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc. (GDB) and its programs and an interest in exploring the limitless joys of the special bond between humans and dogs.

As the Leader of Dogs With Vision Puppy Raising Club, Dot's goal is to create and cultivate a supportive environment where each Club member gains from the knowledge and experience of others. Dot strives to provide each Club member with the necessary tools and GDB approved techniques to successfully train puppies. Club members work together to support one another through challenges and join together in celebrating successes. Just as “it takes a village to raise a child” it takes an entire community to raise a Guide Dog Puppy. Members work with local merchants, schools, employers, veterinarians and neighbors to help us prepare our pups for successful careers as guide dogs.

Most of all Dot's goals are for each raiser and Club member to have FUN and make the experience of raising a Guide Dog Puppy a positive one. The dogs, the fellow puppy raisers, all the Club member, the blind graduates, the staff from GDB and the people everyone comes to know because of these adorable pups, continue to enrich lives.

Dot Dill
Leader, Dogs With Vision

Site modified 21 March 2010